Today I watched the video of Steve Huffman who is a co-founder of reddit.com. You can catch the video here if you are interested in Steve’s perspective on “Lessons learned while at reddit.com.” He mentions several interesting technologies, but the one that got my attention was RabbitMQ. This could be because I named the first web engine I ever built Rabbit, but it’s more likely because I liked the idea of a message queue to speed up processing user requests. If you are building sites for scalability and performance you should look into messaging as a viable strategy to reduce user wait time.
