Simon Willison’s Weblog

Trying out Windows on EC2. Phillip Pearson provides the missing documentation.

# 24th October 2008, 9:57 am / amazonaws, cloud-computing, ec2, phillip-pearson, windows

simple-thrift-queue (via) Phillip Pearson’s surprisingly concise in-memory message queue written in Python using Facebook’s Thrift library (which is similar to Protocol Buffers, but was open sourced much earlier on). Handles 4,000 requests per second on a laptop.

# 4th August 2008, 12:27 pm / facebook, message-queues, messaging, phillip-pearson, protocolbuffers, python, thrift