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The 0.8 release changes the protocol fairly substantially. The new protocol is documented here.
Producer Daemon
Bruce is a producer daemon that supports clients in various programming languages. Clients write messages to Bruce's UNIX domain datagram socket in a simple binary format. Bruce then takes full responsibility for reliable message delivery. Monitoring infrastructure can query Bruce's web interface for JSON-based status and data quality reports.
Maintainer: Dave Peterson
License: Apache v.2.0
https://github.com/tagged/bruce
Python
Pure Python implementation with full protocol support. Consumer and Producer implementations included, GZIP and Snappy compression supported.
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