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It's absolutely incredible that it can take so much effort just to make it run. ActiveMQ seems shiny and interesting on the outside, but the prolific number of
by rbranson 15y ago
It's absolutely incredible that it can take so much effort just to make it run. ActiveMQ seems shiny and interesting on the outside, but the prolific number of war stories took it off my list.
In brilliant contrast, RabbitMQ is it-just-works software. It's a piece of infrastructure that works so well it practically just fades into the background. I couldn't imagine having to worry about a service in which the chief goal is to help alleviate reliability concerns.
- Uchikoma 15y agoThe Reddit guys think differently: "[...] (rabbitmq) died, which added about an hour to the downtime. It dies like this pretty often at 2am or at other especially bad times. Usually it doesn't cause any data-loss, just sleep-loss (its queues are persisted and the apps just build up their own queues until it comes back up), but in this case it decided to crash in a way that corrupted its database of persisted queues beyond repair. rabbitmq accounts for the only unrecoverable data-loss incurred, which was about 400 votes. [...] Coincidentally, rabbitmq crashed twice more that day and a few more times into the weekend. [...] Things have improved thus far, but replacing rabbitmq is at the top end of our extremely long list of things to do."
- rbranson 15y ago"Crashed"... I'm glad they're using such specific terms. I give them a lot of slack because they run that shop with a skeleton crew, but they sure do run into a lot of issues with perfectly good software, have Twitter levels of performance & availability, and make some very odd technical decisions.
- rabbitmq 15y agoSo For The Record. Reddit are atill using RabbitMQ and as far as I can tell they are happy with it. If anyone has any doubts or questions about this, please email us. info@rabbitmq.com