RocketBufs
Huy Ngo Hoang, Benjamin Cassell, Tim B. Brecht, Samer Al-Kiswany · 2020
As companies increasingly deploy message-oriented middleware (MOM) systems in mission-critical components of their infrastructures and services, the demand for improved performance and functionality has accelerated the rate at which new systems are being developed. Unfortunately, existing MOM systems are not designed to take advantages of techniques for high-performance data center communication (e.g., RDMA). In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of RocketBufs, a framework which provides infrastructure for building high-performance, in-memory Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) applications. RocketBufs provides memory-based buffer abstractions and APIs, which are designed to work efficiently with different transport protocols. Applications implemented using RocketBufs manage buffer data using input (rIn) and output (rOut) classes, while the framework is responsible for transmitting, receiving and synchronizing buffer access.