Simon Willison’s Weblog

simple-thrift-queue (via) Phillip Pearson’s surprisingly concise in-memory message queue written in Python using Facebook’s Thrift library (which is similar to Protocol Buffers, but was open sourced much earlier on). Handles 4,000 requests per second on a laptop.

# 12:27 pm / facebook, message-queues, messaging, phillippearson, protocolbuffers, python, thrift