I was sending over 10x that many messages per second, including serialization and deserialization, from Ruby, over a very simple RabbitMQ shovel across datacent

I was sending over 10x that many messages per second, including serialization and deserialization, from Ruby, over a very simple RabbitMQ shovel across datacenters in two time zones, to Ruby, with disk persistence delaying acks on both ends of the shovel, in 2014.