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Messaging Service ("Marconi")
Marconi is a cloud messaging and notification service for developers building applications on top of OpenStack. The service features a web-friendly HTTP API, which developers can use to send messages between the various components of their SaaS and mobile applications, using a variety of communication patterns. Underlying the API is an efficient messaging engine designed with scalability and security in mind.
Donald A. Norman:
The value of a well-designed object is when it has such a rich set of affordances that the people who use it can do things with it that the designer never imagined.
At first glance, Marconi's RESTful API may seem a bit out of the ordinary. Message brokers typically rely on a custom binary protocol and often assume a reliable, 1st-party network between server and client. However, many of today's developers prefer an HTTP-based API. They value the simplicity and transparency of the protocol, its firewall-friendly nature, and its huge ecosystem of tools, load balancers and proxies.
Marconi caters to developers looking for this type of experience.
Resources
The Marconi team hangs out in #openstack-marconi on Freenode, and we are always happy to hear your ideas and answer any questions you might have. If you run into a bug, please report it using our issue tracker.
Releases
Docs
Talks
- Alejandro Cabrera. Rackspace Atlanta. Introducing Openstack Marconi. July 17, 2013. Youtube Speaker Deck
- Flavio Percoco. EuroPython 2013. Marconi: Queuing and Notification Service for Openstack. July 2, 2013. YouTube
- Kurt Griffiths, Allan Metts. Openstack Summit April 2013. Project Overview: OpenStack Queuing and Notification Service ("Marconi""). April 2013. YouTube
- Kurt Griffiths, Flavio Percoco, Allan Metts. Openstack Summit November 2013. Openstack Queuing and Notification Service Marconi. November 2013. YouTube
Articles
- Oz Akan. Rackspace Devops Blog. July 25, 2013. Openstack Marconi API.
- Flavio Percoco. Developer's Black Hole. March 2014. People don't like to queue up.
Contributor Guide
Getting Started
API Specs
Design
Quality Engineering
Resources
- About the Program
- Incubation Status
- Programming Style Guide
- Development Process
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Getting Help