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 v1.0 to be unveiled in San Diego

Posted by on Jun 3, 2010

When you think San Diego, what do you think of? The beautiful waterfront, the San Diego Zoo, Legoland, and of course, interoperable messaging protocols. Next week the 2nd annual AMQP “face to face” meeting will again be held in San Diego, California. As with last year, the first day will be open to the public (Jun 8), and the next two days (Jun 9, 10) will be for members only. If you...
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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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Microsoft hitches to the AMQP wagon

Posted by on Oct 28, 2008

This past week Microsoft announced that they have joined the AMQP working group, throwing support behind the grass-roots AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) movement popular with application developers in financial services, telecom and cloud computing. Microsoft sells a long-standing proprietary messaging product called MSMQ and has been a driving force behind the WS-ReliableMessaging...
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