zeromq 是个好东西

www.zeromq.org(穿墙去看)

名字有点像zero-ice不过不是一个东西也不是一个公司出的

Middleware is always a bottleneck, and can never be too fast. We want to be able to handle at least 10 times, and up to 100 times the volume of existing middleware servers. This requirement places constraints on many areas of the design.

ØMQ is very thin. Requires just a couple of pages in resident memory.

ØMQ is already very fast. We're getting 13.4 microseconds end-to-end latencies and up to 4.1 million messages a second today. (1G的网卡,8核AMD Opteron)

Who are we?
ØMQ is a collaboration between a group of firms, namely FastMQ (which brings experience of the financial messaging market), iMatix (which brings the AMQP expertise), Intel (which brings hardware expertise) and other firms with hardware, operating system, network, and application expertise. FastMQ Inc. unifies all copyrights on the code.

有python接口

它网站上AMQP的介绍也不错

http://www.zeromq.org/whitepapers:amqp-analysis