Simon Willison’s Weblog

disturbyte’s zenqueue. Simple, tiny and fast Python message queue server built on top of coroutines and Eventlet, using JSON over TCP as the message format. I’m impressed with how potentially useful this looks considering the small amount of code. The author benchmarks it at 28 thousand messages/second.

# 11th May 2009, 1:27 pm / coroutines, eventlet, github, json, message-queues, python, zachary-voase, zenqueue

A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency. David Beazley’s sequel to last year’s mind-expanding “Generator Tricks for System Programmers”, perfect for if you’ve ever puzzled over what exactly you can use Python’s generator-based coroutine support for.

# 24th April 2009, 10:58 am / concurrency, coroutines, david-beazley, generators, python