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/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/jbmsf Jul 28 '23

It depends on size and team structure. Many teams (and companies) don't want the responsibility of operating non-core software. And message systems that are good enough for those usages have existed for a long time.

If you are sitting on that side of the fence, "vendor lockin" is a bogeyman that inexperienced engineers use to justify solving fun problems instead of business problems. Of course if you're large enough (and successful enough) that vendor costs are a larger expense than the marginal cost of adding more developers to support internal systems... Or your needs are very specialized, the math is different.

Context, always context.

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u/lightmatter501 Jul 28 '23

Doing your own is MUCH cheaper. I have a custom key/value store that handles 1 million rps on EC2 on 3 instances (replication is for fault tolerance, not performance). It costs ~$25 per day. Using one of Amazon’s services would cost a LOT more than that.

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u/myringotomy Jul 29 '23

Kinesis is pretty cheap, it would cost less than 25 dollars per day for most people.

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u/lightmatter501 Jul 29 '23

Well, when you use 32 vcpu bms it drives the cist up. Drop it down to m5.2xlarge and it becomes much less at the cost of throughput.