Perl-friendly message queue-like system

[Ash Berlin]

On 22 Sep 2011, at 10:22, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> On 22/09/11 09:15, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
>> Mongers of Perl,
>> 
>> I have a bunch of servers doing mail ilftering.  I would like them to send tiny messages about the results of said filtering to a central point.  I would then like something at the central point to pop messages off the queue and update a database.  Think of it as sort of a centralised collection point for statistical data.  If the odd message gets eaten, it really doesn't matter.
>> 
> 
> ZeroMQ seems to be fairly sane.
> 
> http://www.zeromq.org/bindings:perl
> 
> Dirk

The *name* of ZeroMQ always annoys me. ITS NOT A QUEUE. Its a Protocol/socket library, if you want to actually have any kind of queueing you need to write your own 'broker'