Zeromq is a communication library that provides sockets for building scalable distributed applications. It supports common messaging patterns like request-reply, publish-subscribe, and push-pull. An example chat application is presented that uses a pub-sub pattern with a publisher server sending messages to subscribed clients. The server receives messages on a pull socket and forwards them to connected clients via a publish socket. Clients subscribe to the publish socket and can send messages via a push socket. Code samples in Ruby demonstrate setting up the sockets and connections for the server and client components.
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