Plus it has the added benefit that if you design your architecture with queues as your distribution primitive you can scale across multiple machines pretty easi

Plus it has the added benefit that if you design your architecture with queues as your distribution primitive you can scale across multiple machines pretty easily. There's a mostly drop-in interface [1] to AMQP that mimics the native Python Queue interface. [1] http://www.lshift.net/blog/2009/06/11/python-queue-interface-for-amqp http://www.lshift.net/blog/2009/06/11/python-queue-interface...