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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)

Routing schemes


We will focus mainly on the unicast scheme, but there are other routing schemes worth mentioning:

  • Unicast: This is the major message transmission scheme among the other routing schemes. It has a one-to-one relationship where the source transmits a message to only one destination.

  • Multicast: This is a one-to-many approach where one source transmits messages to many destinations, which are subscribed to the source. It does not guarantee the delivery of messages to the destinations, just like UDP.

  • Broadcast: This is a one-to-all approach where the source transmits messages to every single destination. However, not all protocols support broadcasting (for example, X.25).

  • Geocast: This is a one-to-many approach where one source transmits messages to multiple destinations based on their geographic locations.

ZeroMQ supports unicast transports such as IPC, TCP, and INPROC and multicast transports such as Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) and Encapsulated Pragmatic General Multicast...