ÃMQ (also known as ZeroMQ, 0MQ, or zmq) looks like an embeddable networking library, but acts like a concurrency framework. It gives you sockets that carry atomic messages across various transports, like in-process, inter-process, TCP, and multicast. You can connect sockets N-to-N with patterns like fan-out, pub-sub, task distribution, and request-reply. Itâs fast enough to be the fabric for clustered products. Its asynchronous I/O model gives you scalable multicore applications, built as asynchronous message-processing tasks. It has a score of language APIs and runs on most operating systems. ÃMQ is from iMatix and is LGPLv3 open source.
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