Sprinkle - A messaging broker in pure Python

PyConUK 2007

Enterprise Email

• Corporate IT systems are incompatible
• Business data sent by email

Enterprise Messaging

• Corporate IT systems can communicate
• Reduction in workload and fewer errors

Messaging Solutions

• Many are written in <yawn> Java
• Most are <sigh> not Free

I wanted something:

• I could hold in the palm of my hand
• I could understand
• I could hack on

Sprinkle keeps it simple

• A single file of pure Python
• The protocol puts text on the wire
  • STOMP at http://stomp.codehaus.org/Protocol
  • Simple to write a client
  • Easy to test and debug
• OS filesystem manages messages
  • Access controls
  • Atomicity
• Traditional Unix tools for admin eg: more, grep
• GPLv3

How Sprinkle works

How you can help

1. Download it from http://www.thuswise.org/sprinkle/
2. Try it
3. Find something wrong with it
4. Fix it
5. Get in touch with tundish@thuswise.org.uk
6. Tell people