Tellago is very happy to announce the open source release of Hermes, a new publish-subscribe messaging technology based on MongoDB and RESTful Services.

Publish-subscribe messaging mechanisms are a fundamental component of distributed systems. The notion of pub-sub has been around since the very early days of computer science and has become increasingly popular in the last few years with the emergence of internet messaging infrastructures such as Twitter, Facebook, Google’s PubSubHubHub or RSS cloud.  Hermes provides a solid, simple, interoperable and highly scalable infrastructure for enabling publish-subscribe messaging in distributed applications. Using Hermes, applications can publish and subscribe to heterogeneous data sets using a very simple HTTP interfaces.

Hermes was completely built on Microsoft.NET and it leverages MongoDB as its message repository. In addition to its simplicity, Hermes provides an infrastructure based on MongoDB that can scale horizontally to hundreds of nodes. Even though the Hermes infrastructure can be used on any platform or programming language, Tellago will be providing special support to adoption of Hermes in Microsoft.NET applications.