ZeroMQ

[[zeroMQ]] [[MQ]] ZeroMQ shouldnot be regarded as a pure socket library, it should be regarded as a messaging library, a “lightweight” message queue library. zmq_socket(3) - 0MQ Api (zeromq.org) ZeroMQ | Socket API Key differences to conventional sockets Generally speaking, conventional sockets present a synchronous interface to either connection-oriented reliable byte streams (SOCK_STREAM), or connection-less unreliable datagrams (SOCK_DGRAM). In comparison, ØMQ sockets present an abstraction of an asynchronous message queue, with the exact queueing semantics depending on the socket type in use....