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AMQP Conference & 1.0 Launch - New York
Today, myself and Sam Lambert were at the 4th Annual AMQP Conference and Launch of the version 1.0 of the protocol. We were there representing Smith Electric Vehicles, who use StormMQ a cloud based message queue (more on that in a forthcoming post about my work at Smith). AMQP is the "Advanced Message Queueing Protocol" a protocol which is currently in the process of establishing itself as a formal standard through the OASIS group.
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The conference was hosted at the JP Morgan Chase & Co head office in New York and featured a range of updates and discussions on the protocol, vendor discussions on their products and their customers and some customer use cases.
There was a very interesting talk from David Ingham, Microsoft, regarding the Azure Service Bus and their work supporting AMQP 1.0, as well as a case study from Matthew Arrott of TWIST about the use of AMQP in the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a global multi-scale instrumentation of the worlds oceans for in-situ scientific exploration. One of the key aspects of AMQP is interoperability, allowing multiple clients, consumers and publishers to communicate with one another; to that effect there was an excellent demonstration of the Red Hat, Microsoft, Inetco and a number of other AMQP implementations publishing and receiving updates from each other.
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http://twitter.com/#!/scholzj/status/124212629408464896
Whilst my work with Smith naturally makes me biased, I must admit I really think StormMQ came out on top, which is reassuring considering the value we place on their service for our telemetry project, other delegates seemed to agree. Following their talk many of the other speakers made references to the work StormMQ have done, in particular their work with Smith and AMQP as an excellent advanced case-study implemented with excellent results.
http://twitter.com/#!/michaelpeacock/status/124212788762656768
As part of their talk they performed a demo of the Smith Telemetry project, and discussed their hosted MQ service and some of the challenges they faced implementing the standards. StormMQ also decided to make the rather brave decision of launching their new website, and beta access to their upgraded cloud MQ platform at the event, as well as announcing their new involvement in the OpenStack project.
http://twitter.com/#!/stormmq/status/124181075881758720
The evening ended with a panel session featuring a range of working group members and those who spoke during the event.
A huge well done and congratulations to the AMQP Working Group, and in particular Ross Cooney, Raph Cohn, and Eamon Walshe of StormMQ.
With the launch of AMQP 1.0 there is now a stable, reliable, open protocol for messaging used by a huge range of customers and needs.
Posted by Michael on 13th Oct 2011 at 09:09
