Message Bus

The way that Truxton can scale exploitation processing is by using a Message Bus.

What is a Message Bus

A message bus is way of using messages to communicate between processes. The messages reside in a message queue. Each Truxton exploitation process in the ETL layer subscribes to a message queue. When someone needs an exploitation process to operate on a file, they put a message onto that process' queue. When that process is ready to process data, it pulls a message from its queue.

Truxton's Message Bus

Messaging functionality in Truxton is implemented as a plugin to allow the use of different messaging technologies. However, Truxton uses a database to host the message queues. The name of the message queue is the name of the table in the database that contains the messages.