ERericmoritz·May 5, 2012
Kestrel: https://github.com/robey/kestrel
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kestrel
simple, distributed message queue system (inactive)
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2009 | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesWe are using this: http://github.com/robey/kestrel
It is written in scala for use at Twitter. It is super simple to getting running and is so far robust. We are using it to pass JSON messages around our system for background processing tasks.
In Ask HN: What's a good, open source, distributed, worker queue?Try these, for starters:
http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master
http://github.com/dpp/lift-samples/tree/master ( http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/master )
In Scala is my next choiceAsk YC: Which queue/background worker solution?
I want to distribute tasks across several servers and processes. I've found several solutions, but couldn't find any useful third party reviews. So can anyone recommend a good solution from their own experience?
Currently, I'm looking at:
- Scarling/Kestrel http://github.com/robey/kestrel/tree/master
- Gearman http://www.danga.com/gearman/
- RabbitMQ or any other AMQP solution (but that looks as overkill)
- rolling my own with REST or MySQL
4 points · Open discussionKestrel: Twitter's new message queue, written in 1500 lines of Scala
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