This document discusses ZeroMQ, an open-source library that provides a concurrency framework and messaging system. It allows for asynchronous message passing between applications with support for 20+ programming languages. ZeroMQ abstracts away low-level socket details and supports patterns like request/response, publish/subscribe, and routing via different socket types. It can scale to multi-core systems and has demonstrated throughput of over 6 million messages per second on an 8-core machine.