[rabbitmq-discuss] Moving on

Fri Jun 29 21:58:52 BST 2012

+1. Your contributions will be missed!

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Matthew Sackman <matthew at rabbitmq.com>wrote:

> As some of you will have noticed, over the last few months, my
> contributions to RabbitMQ have decreased fairly sharply. I have been
> busying myself with other projects (eg AtomizeJS) and have only really
> returned to work on Rabbit to help with knowledge transfer
> (active/active HA systems) and other issues that interest me (eg the
> Codel AQM experiments). Even that though is now at an end.
>
> Whilst I am staying with VMware, I'm now officially moving on from
> working with RabbitMQ to pastures new.
>
> I first started work on RabbitMQ in the summer of 2006 and whilst there
> were about 2.5 years in which I did various bits of a PhD and didn't
> have anything to do with Rabbit during that time, I've nevertheless been
> involved in Rabbit on and off for the last 6 years. When I returned to
> LShift early spring 2009, Rabbit was a very much more primitive beast
> than it is today - it couldn't hold more messages than could fit in RAM,
> there were no plugins, we didn't implement the whole of AMQP 0-8, let
> alone 0-9-1, there was no form of HA at all, etc etc. I am very grateful
> to have had the opportunity to work on many of those areas and help the
> community and guide the direction of Rabbit.
>
> Obviously, Rabbit is in very good hands going forwards, not just with
> the remaining members of the original team that came, along with myself,
> to VMware from LShift, but with additional recruits, and of course with
> the community that has, through bug reports, the creation of many
> clients and applications, and through publicity in the form of blog
> posts, books, and tweets, helped so much with Rabbit's growth and
> continuing popularity.
>
> Thank you, one and all.
>
> Matthew
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