Five Reasons Why You Would Want To Build Your Own Messaging System
Now, I write this , and I hope the people that read it take it in the way that it is intended. Light, humorous , constructive criticism. You guys know who you are, and if you read this I owe you a beer.
Messaging systems are becoming just part of the infrastructure. A commodity product in the last couple of years. As an end user, would you write your own mail server ? Your own word processor ?
In the distant past, like 2005, you may have had a lot of good reasons to write your own messaging systems. Cost, dealing with TIBCO, etc. But this is 2008, and times have changed. You did not have the open source software you have today back then.
So here are the five reasons you would want to write your own messaging system.
[1] YOU ARE STUPID
Really, why would you spend all the time and man power to build a messaging system ? If you really wanted some feature, you could put your time into one of the open source messaging systems. Think about it, how long would it take you to build a messaging system and how long would it take just to make sure one of the open source ones fits your needs?
Think about sunk costs, time to market and anything else you want and it is a losing situation.
[2] YOU ARE UNIQUE IN THE WORLD AND HAVE A NEED NO ONE ELSE HAS IN THE WORLD
Sure there are specific needs, but I have not seen a specific need that could not be met by extending a current messaging system. That being said, not everything needs to be on a messaging system. If you are that unique, a different system may be better anyway.
[3] YOU DO NOT REALIZE THAT THERE ARE OPEN SOURCE MESSAGING SYSTEMS
This is common. AMQP has only been around for a couple of years. It is not as mature as one would like, but they are up and coming. RabbitMQ, OpenAMP, Qpid. Check them out. JP Morgan Chase uses them for millions of messages a day in production, so it is pretty good.
[4] YOU WANT TO SELL/WRITE A MESSAGING SYSTEM
Yeah, then you would have to write your own.
[5] THERE IS NO FIFTH REASON
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