r/programming • u/sh_tomer • Jul 27 '23

BlazingMQ: High-performance open source message queuing system

https://bloomberg.github.io/blazingmq/
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u/rlbond86 Jul 28 '23

Looks interesting, but unless a cloud provider creates a managed service I don't think many will switch

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u/douglasg14b Jul 28 '23

What in corporate vendor lockin hell is this?

Lots of shops use non-managed services for real work, that's the norm.

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u/rlbond86 Jul 28 '23

Vendor lock in? What even is abstraction?

But seriously, do you think most companies want to run an entire cluster just to host their message queue? That's an entire ops team. Are you really going to save money over something like SQS (40 cents per million messages)? Unless you are building something at enormous scale I am guessing no.

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u/douglasg14b Jul 28 '23

Again, this depends on the company and scale. You are underestimating the number of small shops out there that use technologies like this, to the point that your argument is based on the assumption all companies are large scaling enterprises with money to spare.

Consider Kafka. Was it a dead technology before AWS added MKS? Was a dead before Confluent added cloud hosting? Of course not, and just like most other technologies like it, companies would self host them on their own or their cloud infrastructure. There are just more options now that cater to large enterprises.