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Is there a reason not to just use Tibco RV? Because all of these are long-solved problems.

We love opensource, AMQP was created by wall-street giants and RabbitMQ fits our case and Tibco RV does not solve our particular case in our particular environment.

Did you guys evaluate ZeroMQ? IIRC It's made by the same guys that originally designed AMQP. If you did, I'm curious to see what your conclusions were.

Yes. Among several queuing systems we played with RabbitMQ just worked out of the box with features we wanted such as reliability, confirms and the queueing patterns (routing, topologies, fan-out etc.), it was easy to use and deploy. 0MQ gave us no message persistence or broker implementation (having a broker decouples our producers and consumers), if we were to use 0MQ many features we wanted would have to written which RabbitMQ provided out of the box. I think 0MQ is more like a framework than a queueing system/platform like RabbitMQ which just works.

Last time i checked it was quite expensive

There is no such thing as cheap or expensive in business, there is only worth the money, or not. And time is also money.

Twitter too, shouldn't have wasted so much time reinventing the wheel and very publicly getting it wrong a few times. It probably cost them a lot more in the end too (but hey, it was only VC money, right?)

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