Low-Latency Message Queues in Multi-Region Application Architectures

Low-Latency Message Queues in Multi-Region Application Architectures

As applications grow, scalability challenges become increasingly complex. One aspect that particularly demands attention is how to effectively manage multi-region deployments. This is essential for high availability, data redundancy, and reduced latency. In this blog post, we will delve into the intricacies of multi-region deployments, focusing on managing latency and data locality, particularly in the…

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Are Free, Open-Source Message Queues Right For You?

Open-source message queue

In today’s software development landscape, smooth communication between software components is crucial. That’s where messaging queues come in, working behind the scenes to ensure data flows seamlessly. While free, open-source message queues offer great flexibility and are cost-effective, are they the right fit for your project? This guide’ll explore these tools in detail, break down…

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Message Queue vs. Publish-Subscribe

Message Queue vs. Publish-Subscribe

If you’re trying to tie distributed systems together, you’re likely considering implementing a message queue or perhaps a publish-subscribe pattern. Here’s the difference between these two options and information to help you choose the right solution. The flexibility and scalability of IronMQ allows you to have both in one platform. Book a free demo and…

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What is RabbitMQ?

RabbitMQ vs IronMQ (What is RabbitMQ)

Message queues enable software applications to connect and scale, allowing asynchronous communication between systems with varying throughputs. What is RabbitMQ? It’s a message queue tool that connects applications to exchange messages, facilitating scalability and stability for a competitive edge. This article delves into RabbitMQ, its usage, and compares it to Iron.io’s IronMQ.   The 3…

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Fastest Messaging Queue: IronMQ is 10x Faster Than RabbitMQ

We wrote IronMQ from the ground up as a cloud-agnostic message queue service with a focus on performance and easy deployment and management. Since its inception, we’ve put all our highest volume customers on it, some doing billions of message requests per day. As our technology continues to evolve, it’s important that we continue to measure our success…

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Best Alternative Hosted Message Queue Service

Best alternative Hosted Message Queue service

What is a Message Queue? A message queue is a part of messaging processing systems that allows data interchange between independent applications and services. Message queues preserve “messages” (packets of data created by applications for consumption by other applications) in the order they are transmitted until the consuming application can process them. It allows messages…

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Are Message Queues in Linux Obsolete?

Are Message Queues in Linux Obsolete?

If you look for information on message queues in Linux, you’re likely to come across a mixed bag of information. Some imply they’re obsolete, others accuse them of being buggy, others still say they’re one of the most underutilized Unix resources. So, what do you believe? If you’re thinking about using a message queue in…

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Work queue with Go and IronMQ

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Work Queue with Go and IronMQ Setting up a work queue is ideal for a system where background jobs often take longer than an average HTTP request, whether they are at risk of timeout or simply eating away at efficiency. By maintaining a queue of work or tasks, new work can be pushed into the…

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What is Pub/Sub? Asynchronous Tasks in the Cloud | Iron.io

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Overview Pub/Sub is, at its most basic, a form of asynchronous messaging providing service to service communication. Serverless situations often call for pub/sub, as do microservice architectures, to ensure that messages get to every part of a service that needs that information. Various systems use pub/sub messaging services, so let’s take a deeper look at…

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Redis RQ vs Iron.MQ: Which Service Is Better for Me?

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Overview Language: Iron.MQ is language agnostic and Redis RQ supports Python, JavaScript, Ruby and GO, along with many others. Performance: Redis RQ is quite different from Iron.MQ and other message queuing services because it is not purely a message queuing system. Because of its in-memory database, it is best for real-time messages where persistence isn’t…

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