Tag: queues


Batching Work For Efficiency and Tuning

I’ve been talking a lot about message systems in distributed architectures lately. And one of the slides I show in my talks is a slide about compressing messages before writes to the database. In other words, if you have 150k messages per second coming in which would translate 1:1 in writes and force your database(s) …

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Pros and Cons of Redis-Resque and SQS

As with any system or application, there are upsides and downsides to using them. The two queueing systems that I want to explore are Resque and Amazon’s Simple Queuing Service. Resque is essentially a set of queuing APIs that run on Redis. Redis is an in-memory data store and is what actually handles the queues. …

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Setting Up daemontools on CentOS 5

I recently had to setup daemontools on a CentOS system. I had set it up before but it had been a while. So I Google’d around and found very little and what little I did find wasn’t very helpful. So here is a quick and dirty on setting up daemontools. I even included the CentOS …

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