Marconi sharding is officially merged in! It's now possible to set up multiple storage nodes and partition queues amongst them. This makes it possible to scale Marconi quite a bit.
Thanks goes to everyone on the Marconi team and much of the team at the Atlanta Rackspace office for helping make this happen!
Marconi is growing - and could use help.
Before too much longer, we're going to be branching a notifications project off of the Marconi code base. That's to say, it'll grow along with queues, and might even be able to be launched with a unified API, but I see that it'll become it's own project some day.
Then there's the need to support more storage back ends. Currently, we support mongodb and sqlite. There's work started on sqlalchemy (awesome!) and you've probably already heard about my own efforts at redis support.
How about those transports? We only support WSGI/HTTP at the moment, implemented on top of the lean and lovely Falcon framework. We also have an extremely experimental websockets implementation available contributed by flaper87. I'm hoping to see a zeromq transport in the future. Then there's the upcoming nanomsg transport, as well. It's an exciting area, and I hope you'll join in and share your thoughts.
Features: there's many more planned. Better operational stats, queue quotas, queue flavors, Heat integration, Horizon integration, Tempest integration - just check out our blueprints page!
What's next on my plate? I hope to wrap up Marconi Redis, at least in beta form.