AMQP, the advanced message queuing protocol, has been quietly and steadily building momentum over the last few years. The AMQP working group has defined a new message queuing protocol specification as well as incubating an implementation (Apache Qpid) that serves as an upstream.
In pursuit of the goal of providing “developers with a simple and more powerful way of constructing messaging dependent applications”, this week Red Hat announced a commercial implementation of AMQP as part of Red Hat Enterprise MRG. MRG combines messaging, realtime, and grid technologies into one consumable that shows a lot of promise in providing extreme messaging and high throughput computing (HTC) with many languages (Java, JMS, C++, Python, Ruby, and .NET) using commodity hardware.
There’s a market breakdown that provides the wide view, and read on for a more detailed developer view.
