Twitter releases the code for the messaging system they use across their clusters

http://rubyforge.org/projects/starling/

by pius • 19 years ago

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joshwa• 19 years ago

Has anyone actually looked at this code yet? Documentation?

Wish they'd put up a SVN browser so I don't have to download it to see what it looks like.

pius• 19 years ago

Usually you can browse Rubyforge code like so: http://starling.rubyforge.org/svn/

That only works if the project used Rubyforge's Subversion repository.

ijoshua• 19 years ago

I looked at it very briefly. The codebase is actually pretty small. It appears to depend heavily on memcached.

codeslinger• 19 years ago

Yay! Finally... Blaine was talking about releasing this for months; glad he finally got around to it :)

bayareaguy• 19 years ago

It's interesting that its own server (starling) uses the Memcached protocol. From the readme:

  Starling - a light weight server for reliable distributed message passing.

  = Synopsis

  # Start the Starling server as a daemonized process:
  starling -h 192.168.1.1 -d

  # Put messages onto a queue:
  require 'memcache'
  starling = MemCache.new('192.168.1.1:22122')
  starling.set('my_queue', 12345)

  # Get messages from the queue:
  require 'memcache'
  starling = MemCache.new('192.168.1.1:22122')
  loop { puts starling.get('my_queue') }

Twitter releases the code for the messaging system they use across their clusters

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