A Basic Twitter Message Queue Service using ActiveMQ and WebSocket
I've been planning to write this for a long time, since I got so fascinated by the simplicity and elegance of message queue, and the performance boost it could bring to various systems. So here we are. TL;DR If you just want to see an example, or make sure you get the right dependencies: boom, here you go! What is Message Queue? Message Queue is the storage area of a mechanism, which allows distributed applications to communicate asynchronously by sending messages between the applications . Why Message Queue? I think you can probably google a dozen reasons why you should do it. Speaking from my experience working in various integration projects, message queue, is the pursue for high performance, high scalability, high resilience and low coupling, while accomplishing asynchronous communication, buffering and filtering at the same time. What Choices Do I Have? Rather than trying to implement you own message queueing, here is so...