MessagePipe¶ ↑

MessagePack (msgpack.org/) based high performance rpc layer built on zmq

This fork is built on zmq rather than tcp. ZMQ already supports multiple transport layers, as well as multilpe messaging paradigms (www.zeromq.org/).

tl;dr Just switching zmq for tcp here made this consistently 20% faster. zmq is the shit.

Example¶ ↑

server.rb:

class TestServer < ZMQMessagePipeServer

  def add(a, b)
    a + b
  end

  def echo(string)
    string
  end

end

TestServer.new.start

client.rb

client = MessagePipe.new('localhost', 9191))
client.call :add, 1, 2 #=> 3
client.call :echo, 'hello' #=> 'hello'
client.call :does_not_exist #=> raise MessagePipe::RemoteError, 'NoMethodError: no method with name does_not_exist'

benchmarks¶ ↑

Tobi’s original release:

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$ time ruby -rsocket benchmark.rb benchmark finished in 7.11434507369995s benchmark finished in 7.72831606864929s benchmark finished in 8.28042602539062s benchmark finished in 8.66085696220398s benchmark finished in 8.80554294586182s

real 0m8.914s user 0m1.036s sys 0m0.934s

jessestorimer@jessebook:~/projects/messagepipe

git:master

ree-1.8.7@messagepipe

$ time ruby -rsocket benchmark.rb benchmark finished in 7.20177602767944s benchmark finished in 7.79495096206665s benchmark finished in 8.26117610931396s benchmark finished in 8.58127403259277s benchmark finished in 8.78165793418884s

real 0m8.891s user 0m1.030s sys 0m0.933s

Same thing but with zmq

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$ time ruby benchmark.rb benchmark finished in 7.06875610351562s benchmark finished in 7.06779718399048s benchmark finished in 7.07593989372253s benchmark finished in 7.12636685371399s benchmark finished in 7.13110589981079s

real 0m7.240s user 0m1.124s sys 0m1.917s

jessestorimer@jessebook:~/projects/messagepipe

git:master+

ree-1.8.7@messagepipe

$ time ruby benchmark.rb benchmark finished in 7.06084990501404s benchmark finished in 7.0807249546051s benchmark finished in 7.08461308479309s benchmark finished in 7.08931183815002s benchmark finished in 7.0946729183197s

real 0m7.200s user 0m1.112s sys 0m1.913s

todo¶ ↑

• improve file structure

• implement EM based client transport

• implement redis based client transport with delivery guarantees

• allow calls to be async if transport supports it (will require you to call result.get to get the actual payload)

• support timeouts and reconnects