Hoosgot

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010511.html asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb, I’m interested getting an idea of what open source message queueing systems exist that are fast, stable, and have some good replication (think multi-colo) and fault tolerance built-in. The idea being, of course, that some processes want to send messages into a queue (of work to be done) and other processes will fetch those and do stuff with them. Ideally, I’m looking for a system that allows for different message priorities–meaning that I’d like to be able to mark some messages as less important, so it’s okay if we lose them in a crash. It’d also be handy to have the ability to set expiation times on messages. Bonus points for stuff with good Perl libraries. Put another …

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