= Name

Starling - a light weight server for reliable distributed message passing.

= Synopsis

Start the Starling server as a daemonized process:

starling -h 192.168.1.1 -d

Put messages onto a queue:

require 'memcache' starling = MemCache.new('192.168.1.1:22122') starling.set('my_queue', 12345)

Get messages from the queue:

require 'memcache' starling = MemCache.new('192.168.1.1:22122') loop { puts starling.get('my_queue') }

See the Starling documentation for more information.

= Description

Starling is a powerful but simple messaging server that enables reliable distributed queuing with an absolutely minimal overhead. It speaks the MemCache protocol for maximum cross-platform compatibility. Any language that speaks MemCache can take advantage of Starling's queue facilities.

= Known Issues

• Starling is "slow" as far as messaging systems are concerned. In practice, it's fast enough.

= Authors

Blaine Cook [email protected]

= Copyright

Starling - a light-weight server for reliable distributed message passing. Copyright 2007 Blaine Cook [email protected], Twitter Inc.

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