AMQP surfing a wave of positive progress

Posted by on Jun 11, 2010

Earlier this week I attended the second annual AMQP Face-to-Face conference at the beautiful Scripps campus at the University of California San Diego.  Even a somewhat dreary day in San Diego, which they call June Gloom, is better than a nice day back home in Ottawa, and I was inspired by the many surfer dudes and dudettes who braved the cool weather to venture into the waves.  I kept my...
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AMQP’s Coming Out Party

Posted by on Apr 5, 2009

I was fortunate enough to participate in the AMQP working group’s 2009 Face-to-Face meeting at the University of California San Diego on April 1. I say fortunate for three reasons: first because it was nice to meet the really smart people that have been driving this exciting technology; second because it was great to be there for the public unveiling of version 1.0 of the specification; and...
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Infiniband Losing the War to Ethernet

Posted by on Jan 30, 2009

A few short years ago, the buzz around Infiniband for low-latency algorithmic trading was deafening. If you absolutely needed the lowest latency possible, and were willing to write special adapters to special APIs, Infiniband’s eye-popping latency numbers were very appealing when compared with software running over GigaBit Ethernet. Sure it was expensive and proprietary, and you only had a...
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