ZeroMQ VS Aeron

Slightly OT:

Are ZeroMQ and NanoMQ still widely used (and recommended)?

https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq

https://github.com/nanomq/nanomq

Remarkable, up until recently, requests for a new release were sumewhat brusquely rejected and marked as spam.

https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/4455

I wonder what made the maintainer change his mind.

FP Libraries: gRPC, ZeroMQ, and AREG are examples of libraries with a special focus on providing possibilities for Interprocess Communication. Developed using C++, they facilitate communication through predefined APIs, emphasizing functional programming concepts.

Unlikely, but they seem to be different things altogether. BlazingMQ appears to be a traditional message queue (think ActiveMQ), with message peristence. ZeroMQ is more of a network middleware (think Tibco Rendezvous), and does not include persistence.

BlazingMQ also appears to be more of a "platform" or "service" that an app can use (sort of like Oracle, say) -- ZeroMQ includes libraries that one can use to build an app, service or platform, but none is provided "out of the box".

Which makes it harder to get started with ZeroMQ, since by definition every ZeroMQ app is essentially built "from scratch".

If you're interested in ZeroMQ, you may want to check out OZ (https://github.com/nyfix/OZ), which is a Rendezvous-like platform that uses the OpenMAMA API (https://github.com/finos/OpenMAMA) and ZeroMQ (https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq) transport to provide a full-featured network middleware implementation. OZ has been used in our shop since 2020 handling approx 50MM high-value messages per day on our global FIX network.

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Just check copying file in source repo https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq

I think the situation is more subtle than the poster admits.

No, ZeroMQ and successors do not tell you about socket state. You can't detect disconnection or reconnection. But then if a TCP connection fails in some way that does not lead to disconnection (packets getting dropped, remote machine powers down), it can't possibly tell you about that either, but you still need to deal with it. So in any case, you need some sort of application-level error detection and recovery; you need heartbeats, and serial numbers in messages, and a protocol for explicitly restarting a connection and performing the initial handshake. And once you have that, explicit connection events from ZeroMQ are much less important.

Admittedly, given that this is a TCP transport, reporting reconnections would still be useful, because TCP won't ever drop messages from the interior of a sequence itself (if it delivers 15, it has delivered 1 - 14 already), so you shouldn't need the serial numbers.

And if it's really not possible to detect authentication failures, than that seems rubbish. And it seems that is indeed the case: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/3505

From https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq

Semi-related is the Aeron project: https://github.com/real-logic/aeron

- ez itt most egy izgalmasabb product (trading/matching engine, low latency code, aeron alapokon)

Look into Aeron for examples of high performance UDP message sending. We use it for high performance audio messaging, and I previously used it in high frequency trading https://github.com/real-logic/aeron. It is written in Java/C, but the general concepts of back pressure and reliable delivery over UDP are well documented.

They mention their training offer on the Aeron GitHub page here: https://github.com/real-logic/aeron

Yup the Disruptor paper actually shocked the industry a bit, b/c it was so out of place. BTW, Martin Thompson went on improving the Disruptor, and the result is the Aeron Protocol: https://github.com/real-logic/aeron

I was about to suggest Chronicle, but it looks like they have gone closed-source. The older version is still interesting to look through though. Aeron / Disruptor / SBE are good projects for inspiration as well.

We are using this Java Aeron (https://github.com/real-logic/aeron) to build our production distributed messaging cluster. As a Rust lover, Is there any similar lib or framework in our ecosystem to test benchmark with it?

Java: In the past years C++ in finance has been rapidly supplanted by Java thanks to breakthrough technologies in the past decade like LMAX Disruptor, Chronicle Queue, Azul JVM, and Aeron (not the ergonomic chair, but this one, the transport protocol that breaks kafka performance records out of the park - not really a full kafka replacement, as Kafka enforces subscriber GD and aeron is more of an OSI layer 4 better than TCP; google "Best-effort delivery vs reliable delivery"). There's plenty more but thanks to these technologies, they allowed a Java based stack to perform the latency and throughput requirements needed for high frequency trading/HFT. From top trading firms like Two Sigma to the New York Stock Exchange, they're in Java. For banks, large modern western banks worth their salt and have modernized their systems are dominated by Java, especially thanks to Azul. To list a few banks, ING, Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse, and Barclays are all in Azul. Even at work Java still dominates.