nsq README

The project's README from github.com/nsqio/nsq. As one markdown file: README.md.

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NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform designed to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day.

It promotes distributed and decentralized topologies without single points of failure, enabling fault tolerance and high availability coupled with a reliable message delivery guarantee. See features & guarantees.

Operationally, NSQ is easy to configure and deploy (all parameters are specified on the command line and compiled binaries have no runtime dependencies). For maximum flexibility, it is agnostic to data format (messages can be JSON, MsgPack, Protocol Buffers, or anything else). Official Go and Python libraries are available out of the box (as well as many other client libraries), and if you're interested in building your own, there's a protocol spec.

We publish binary releases for Linux, Darwin, FreeBSD and Windows, as well as an official Docker image.

NOTE: master is our development branch and may not be stable at all times.

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Code of Conduct

Help us keep NSQ open and inclusive. Please read and follow our Code of Conduct.

Authors

NSQ was designed and developed by Matt Reiferson (@imsnakes) and Jehiah Czebotar (@jehiah) but wouldn't have been possible without the support of Bitly, maintainers (Pierce Lopez), and all our contributors.

Logo created by Wolasi Konu (@kisalow).

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What is this?NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform — a message queue built to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day.
Is this a service I deploy, or a library I import into my code?It's a platform you deploy: NSQ server daemons form the messaging backbone, and your applications connect to them as clients over its documented protocol.
How do I get it running?Download a prebuilt binary release for Linux, macOS, FreeBSD or Windows, or run the official Docker image; configuration is done through command-line parameters.
Do I need to install other software on the machines running it?No — the compiled binaries have no runtime dependencies, so there is nothing extra to install on the host.
Anything I should watch out for before deploying?Stick to published releases: master is the development branch and may not be stable at any given time.
Is it free to use?Yes — NSQ is open source under the MIT license, so it costs nothing to run, including in production.
How battle-tested is the project?It has been developed since 2012, has around 25,700 GitHub stars, and the README even keeps an 'In Production' section.
What are similar projects?nats-server, redis, emqx, rabbitmq-server, open-im-server, asynq, picomq, kafka
Which topics is it in?message-broker, queue, libraries, pubsub, message-queue, high-availability, realtime, scalability, protocol, decentralized, messaging, microservices
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