[erlang-questions] Distributed publish/subscribe system

[Thomas Lindgren]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Kaiduan Xie <kaiduanx@REDACTED>
...
> Any one has experience to build distributed publish/subscribe  system?
> The system has the following requirements,
> 
> 1. Subscriber  subscribes to the interested topic
> 2. Publisher publishes event related to  the topic
> 3. System delivers the event to all the users subscribed to  this
> topic. If subscriber is connected, the event is delivered  immediately.
>     If the subscriber is not connected, system should  persist the
> event. When the user next time becomes online, system delivers  the
> event to the user.
> 
> Can you share the experience?


I haven't tried it myself, but RabbitMQ sounds like it might be suitable:

http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorial-three-python.html

I think you can have persistent queues too.

Best regards,
Thomas