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silverstripe/blowgun
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Blowgun
=======

[](#blowgun)

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Blowgun is a library and tool to send and receive messages from AWS SQS. It's mean to be deployed to an AWS web instance and fetch messages that 'commands' the instance to run jobs or tasks.

Developing blowgun
------------------

[](#developing-blowgun)

Start a queue subscriber like this:

```
./bin/blowgun listen local `whoami` dev --node-name mynode --script-dir ../scripts/
```

This will create and fetch messages from two SQS queues:

1. local-{whoami}-dev-stack
2. local-{whoami}-dev-instance-mynode

Since the behaviour of a SQS is that only one instance will normally receive and work on a message, there are two different uses for these queues:

The first queue is for messages where it doesn't matter which instance does the action, for example snapshot actions.

The second queue is for messages that targets an individual instance. This can be used to ensure that all instances goes into maintenance mode.

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 85.7% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~113 days

Recently: every ~37 days

Total

8

Last Release

3172d ago

Major Versions

1.3.0 → 2.0.02017-10-03

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.4.0

1.3.0PHP >=5.6

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![mateusz](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/118653?v=4)](https://github.com/mateusz "mateusz (6 commits)")[![indygriffiths](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/32345766?v=4)](https://github.com/indygriffiths "indygriffiths (1 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

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