ZMQ
ZMQ is one of the most efficient libraries using which we can improve performance.
The official words about ZMQ are:
ZeroMQ (also known as ØMQ, 0MQ, or zmq) looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework. It gives you sockets that carry atomic messages across various transports like in-process, inter-process, TCP, and multicast. You can connect sockets N-to-N with patterns like fan-out, pub-sub, task distribution, and request-reply. It's fast enough to be the fabric for clustered products. Its asynchronous I/O model gives you scalable multicore applications, built as asynchronous message-processing tasks. It has a score of language APIs and runs on most operating systems.
It supports asynchronicity to perform multiple tasks parallelly, providing customizable networking options.
ZMQ is neither a client nor a server. Rather, we could make our own client and server by making use of the networking functionalities provided by ZMQ.
ZMQ provides sockets of various types, which could be used in different scenarios. For example, the PUB/SUB sockets are used in the publisher-subscriber messaging system. In our scenario, we will be using the mechanism involving ROUTER/DEALER. Let us briefly discuss this mechanism:
In ROUTER/DEALER sockets, ROUTER is used to accept the requests from clients, route the requests, receive the response and send the response to the client, while the DEALER deals with the workers who perform the task. Workers perform the task and return the results to the ROUTER via the DEALER. A ROUTER may have one or more DEALERs.
Here, the ROUTER could be thought of as a frontend for a client to communicate, while the workers work in the backend. Workers perform the task in the backend to return the results to the client via the frontend. The DEALER which is bound to the same context as the ROUTER acts as the main gateway in the backend, through which the results are returned by the workers to the frontend.
Note that the ROUTER also keeps track of the client through a unique id using which the responses will be returned to the client by the ROUTER.
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