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October 2024

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☑ BlazingMQ: Client/Broker Protocol

BlazingMQ is a message queue middleware system developed at Bloomberg which was opened sourced around a year ago. I think it has a lot of very useful features for some use-cases, so this series of articles looks at it in a bit more detail. In this fourth article I’m going to discuss the low-level details of the network protocol between clients and brokers.

This is the 4th of the 4 articles that currently make up the “BlazingMQ” series, the first of which was BlazingMQ: Introduction.

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20 Oct 2024 at 5:45PM in Software
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☑ BlazingMQ: Hands On

BlazingMQ is a message queue middleware system developed at Bloomberg which was opened sourced around a year ago. I think it has a lot of very useful features for some use-cases, so this series of articles looks at it in a bit more detail. In this third article I’m going to try to get a basic producer and consumer working with the broker to get some basic exposure to the APIs in C++ and Python.

This is the 3rd of the 4 articles that currently make up the “BlazingMQ” series, the first of which was BlazingMQ: Introduction.

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10 Oct 2024 at 1:15PM in Software
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July 2024

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☑ BlazingMQ: Clustering and Message Flow

BlazingMQ is a message queue middleware system developed at Bloomberg which was opened sourced around a year ago. I think it has a lot of very useful features for some use-cases, so this series of articles looks at it in a bit more detail. Having looked at an overview of the features in the previous article, I’m going to drill into clustering and a high-level look at the way messages flow through the system.

This is the 2nd of the 4 articles that currently make up the “BlazingMQ” series, the first of which was BlazingMQ: Introduction.

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3 Jul 2024 at 9:08AM in Software
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June 2024

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☑ BlazingMQ: Introduction

BlazingMQ is a message queue middleware system developed at Bloomberg which was opened sourced around a year ago. I think it has a lot of very useful features for some use-cases, so this series of articles looks at it in a bit more detail.

This is the 1st of the 4 articles that currently make up the “BlazingMQ” series.

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27 Jun 2024 at 9:17AM in Software
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