[defunkt]

You could use BERT with amqp, as it's just a data format (like JSON). Ernie and BERT-RPC are libraries which build on that.

[oomkiller]

Ok, but why did you decide to build something rather than use an approach like I described? Is it because you needed synchronous requests, not all of them were async?

[defunkt]

Definitely needed fast synchronous requests. I know you can fake this in RabbitMQ but am not sure why we didn't go with it... guess you'll have to wait for Tom's presentation :)