MQLess is a lightweight actor model framework on top of AWS Lambda.
The Actor Model provides a higher level of abstraction for writing concurrent and distributed systems. It alleviates the developer from having to deal with explicit locking and thread management, making it easier to write correct concurrent and parallel systems.
MQLess bring a new approach by running the actors on AWS Lambda instead of a cluster like Akka or Microsoft Orleans.
The current model of serverless is stateless one. However, real world applications are not always stateless. Actor model fits serverless nicely, you benefit the serverless part but also benefit stateful part, on AWS Lambda.
Read more on the docs
MQLess is a router in front of AWS Lambda. When you send a message to an actor, MQLess queue the message to each actor mailbox and activate the actor on AWS Lambda. When actor is done processing the message, MQLess send the response back to the caller and process the next message on the mailbox.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y libtool automake autoconf pkg-config build-essential libcurl4-nss-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libzmq3-dev libjansson-dev
git clone https://github.com/zeromq/czmq.git
cd czmq
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/somdoron/mqless.git
cd mqless
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
To install it globally run sudo make install.
To run MQLess run mqless, to see all options run mqless --help.
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You can run mqless from docker as well, for local installation run:
docker run -d -p 34543:34543 --restart always --network host mqless/mqless --aws-local http://127.0.0.1:3001
For AWS run:
docker run -d -p 34543:34543 --restart always --network host mqless/mqless
You have to create a IAM role first, head over to the docs