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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 03 June 2011 03:33:13 Robert Collins wrote:
> Rabbit has an awkward high availability story; specifically its not
> trivial to get the reliability we have out of HTTP services, This is
> partly because rabbit clusters don't distribute the queues and because
> its a more stateful and complex system than HTTP. Long story short we
> won't be in a position to use queues for persistence and its simpler
> to use HTTP to gracefully handle a single backend node dying.

This makes me sad :/  Queues are massively more useful if they are persistent 
and this is one aspect that I was really looking forward to working with.  
There's ways around it of course, but it makes things more awkward for the 
consumer.

Presumably you've been looking at http://www.rabbitmq.com/pacemaker.html ?  
I've had a quick glance but not digested anything.

Cheers.