RabbitMQ and FIX?

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Imported from previous forum

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Hi All,

I’m curious as to whether or not a lot of folks are using RabbitMQ in conjunction with their FIX environments - is this something that people are seeing more of lately?

Thanks,

Russ

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Russ,
Hi we use it for Post Trade processing. For order routing an prices we use our own formats.

Regards
John

Hi All,

I’m curious as to whether or not a lot of folks are using RabbitMQ in conjunction with their FIX environments - is this something that people are seeing more of lately?

Thanks,

Russ

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I believe Eurex on the clearing side has made a commitment to FIXML over AMQP. I think the key thing here is to separate a product from the underlying standard. There is a bit of a fork in the AMQP standard - but I think it is an important standard that is coming to the fore. RabbitMQ is a project on one of those forks. It takes about ten years for most standards to mature for wide spread usability overall - there are exceptions of course. AMQP is now about 11 years old - it is ready for wider adoption and we should be discussing it more within the FIX Community. One reason there is not more interest is of course the FIX session layer is incredibly simple and so well fit for purpose that there has been no need to look elsewhere. But FIX is more than a technology standard and we are finding multiple new edge cases and uses of FIX business messages and processes that are beyond the initial usage envisioned by our original gang of four. We have high performance exchange interfaces which have stretched to its limits our current transport, high speed market data, support for the one way transmission of FIX messages over a message bus. AMQP addresses some of these use cases.