# booksbyus/zguide

Learning and Using ØMQ

Repository: https://github.com/booksbyus/zguide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zguide
Homepage: http://zguide.zeromq.org
Language: PHP
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-05-19T19:08:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 42/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 22, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5861, "days_push": 471, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3497, forks 1647 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:07.376883+00:00)

## What it is
The official ZeroMQ (ØMQ) Guide, a comprehensive tutorial book by Pieter Hintjens explaining ZeroMQ messaging patterns from basics to advanced distributed architecture. It includes 750+ runnable code examples translated into 28 programming languages, with this repository hosting the PHP examples.

## Use cases
- learn ZeroMQ from scratch
- understand pub-sub and request-reply messaging patterns
- find ZeroMQ code examples in my language
- build reliable message brokers with ZeroMQ
- learn distributed systems messaging patterns
- understand ZeroMQ socket types like DEALER and ROUTER
- design fault-tolerant messaging architectures

## When to choose
- you are learning ZeroMQ or designing message-based distributed systems
- you want language-agnostic explanations of messaging patterns with runnable examples
- you need proven patterns for reliability, load balancing, and pub-sub over ZeroMQ

## When to avoid
- you need a ZeroMQ library or runtime itself rather than documentation
- you want a tutorial for a different messaging system like Kafka or RabbitMQ
- you need actively updated content for the newest ZeroMQ versions, as the text targets 3.2

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation, networking, message-queue, concurrency, developer-tools
- domain: networking, microservices, developer-tools, tutorials
- platform: cross-platform, python, php, jvm, cpp, go, rust
- tags: zeromq, zmq, messaging-patterns, pub-sub, request-reply, distributed-computing, tutorial, examples, messaging, nodejs

## Member repositories
- booksbyus/zguide (main) score 42

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:07.376883+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:35:51.899231+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.