Remote by Default, Fast by Design: The LavinMQ Journey
summary
84 Codes builds LavinMQ as an open source AMQP091 broker implemented in Crystal with a 17,500‑line codebase, focused on connection‑heavy workloads and streaming plus queues. They solved PHP connection storms with an AMQP proxy, ran benchmarks claiming 9× faster than RabbitMQ on an r7g medium and 360,000 messages on a t4g micro, and add clustering and MQTT. Operations run across ~30 microservices and ~15,000 servers using Help Scout PagerDuty and GitHub Actions.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:53From Counterstrike to tech
- 3:19Remote work foundations
- 4:2584 Codes and LavinMQ
- 5:32Microservices and queues
- 9:50Async communication benefits
- 13:29Culture and customer focus
- 16:39Remote team dynamics
- 19:10Tools for distributed teams
- 23:26Solving issues with LavinMQ
- 26:21AMQP proxy development
- 28:08LavinMQ timeline and features
- 29:35Customer-driven growth
- 31:42LavinMQ design principles
- 33:52Benchmarks and Crystal
- 35:38Message queues vs streaming
- 37:45Streaming use cases
- 38:26Workaways and bonding
- 39:30Key takeaways
- 40:39Q&A
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