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ZeroMQ

By : Faruk Akgul
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ZeroMQ

By: Faruk Akgul

Overview of this book

<p>ØMQ (also spelled ZeroMQ, 0MQ, or ZMQ) is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library aimed at use in scalable distributed or concurrent applications. It provides a message queue, but unlike message-oriented middleware, a ØMQ system can run without a dedicated message broker. The library is designed to have a familiar socket-style API.<br /><br />"ZeroMQ" teaches you to use ZeroMQ through examples in C programming language. You will learn how to use fundamental patterns of message/queuing with a step-by-step tutorial approach and how to apply them. Then, you’ll learn how to use high level APIs and to work with multiple sockets and multithreaded programs through many examples.<br /><br />This book looks at how message/queue works in general and what kinds of problems it solves. Then, it explains how ZeroMQ works and how it differs from other message/queue libraries and how it can be used in different scenarios.<br /><br />You will also learn how to apply essential message/queue design patterns in different scenarios, and how they differ from each other. It shows you practical examples you can apply. You will also learn how to work with multiple sockets.<br /><br />You will learn the basics of ZeroMQ as well as how to use different patterns.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

What a socket is


Sockets are the de-facto standard API for performing network programming. The socket API is very similar to the file I/O in many aspects since we perform open, write, read, and close operations. They let us interact with other nodes in the network. There are several different kinds of sockets and they have different properties. The two most common families are:

  • PF_UNIX for Unix inter-process communication

  • PF_INET for Internet communication

However, we are going to look at DARPA Internet addresses (Internet sockets) since the most common ZeroMQ sockets are Internet sockets.