[rabbitmq-discuss] PubNub Adapter to Enable Global Real-Time Delivery

Wed Aug 21 22:56:47 BST 2013

Greetings,

I'm a developer/evangelist with PubNub and I'm building an integration
framework/scaffolding using Java between RabbitMQ broker and our real-time
network.  We have been repeatedly asked if there are reference examples of
integrations with PubNub, and since no one has built one yet, I figured I'd
give it a shot.

PubNub is the leading real-time network that enables you to add real-time
functionality to your web properties.  We allow for broadcast and unicast
messaging as well as the core building blocks such as presence, history,
auth, api's, etc.  We're providing a global network that is distributed,
secure, fast, and reliable so folks can concentrate on their core
competencies with their apps and leave the build-out and operationalization
of a real-time delivery network to us.  Oh, and then you do not need to
worry about the headache of supporting large numbers of disparate devices
and corner cases such as mobile devices switching bands or catching up
after lost connections.  That's where PubNub shines.

There is some conceptual overlap between RabbitMQ and PubNub since we both
use the pub/sub model, but I'm not looking to displace RabbitMQ.  I am
thinking of ways to hook RabbitMQ into PubNub in order to offer new
capabilities that could not exist before.  I'd love to hear your feedback
on some of my ideas and also hear other real-world scenarios to highlight
in order to come up with a compelling and useful demo.

At a high-level, I am thinking of RabbitMQ behind the firewall, and PubNub
handling delivery in the cloud.   So imagine if a device behind the
corporate firewall produced a message to RabbitMQ.  My adapter would
consume this message from RabbitMQ, execute some business logic
(optionally), and then publish the message to PubNub's api.  At that point,
any device around the world subscribing to the appropriate PubNub channel
would receive the message within 250ms.  You would now have instant global
reach.

On the flip-side, a device can publish a message to PubNub, my adapter
behind the firewall would subscribe to this message, execute business logic
(optionally), and then produce a message to RabbitMQ.  You can then have
servers that consume these messages.  The beauty of this would be that the
producers and consumers would just speak to RabbitMQ in a very traditional
sense.

The kicker here is that you would gain the ability to not only reach a
worldwide audience across multiple device types, but you would also gain
the ability to communicate bi-directionally in real-time.  Enterprises
using RabbitMQ expect a certain level of resiliency, and I want to extend
that notion out into the cloud, where it was assumed to be either too
costly, complex, or just plain impossible.  And as far as scaling, you only
need to worry about your RabbitMQ deployment to handle message delivery
behind your firewall; you do not need to worry about scaling to handle
usage spikes or millions of connected devices.

I will follow up with more detailed use cases as the ideas come together.
 Eventually I'd like to publicize this project and obviously open it up to
the world to use/copy/share/extend.  In the meantime, if you have
real-world examples where you would have liked to extend RabbitMQ to reach
a global audience with real-time communication, please let me know and i
could try to highlight those scenarios.

thx,
randy kang
developer/evangelist
PubNub
randeep at pubnub.com
650-260-5264
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