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RubyForge: Starling

11 month ago

Simon Willison : RubyForge: Starling - RubyForge: Starling. “Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.”

nelson : Starling - Open source release of an interesting piece of technology that Twitter has build; message queuing, lightweight

Tags : code distributed messagequeue opensource ruby software twitter

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