It would not be much of a surprise if you had watched this unfold over the past couple of years. The 0MQ guys lost the AMQP fight and apparently decided that they would instead pivot to fast & lightweight, but non-durable, queues (and whine to anyone who would listen about how AMQP sucks now that they are no longer a part of the effort.) These ephemeral queues have gained a lot of attention recently for simple pubsub, job queues, and other misc tasks in the application stack. Unfortunately they pivoted right into the redis steamroller. Sucks to be them, but as the saying goes: "karma's a bitch..."
