Hi! and welcome to AMP!
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**AMP** (Asynchronous Messaging Protocol) is a flexible `Remoting <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remoting>`_ protocol for sending multiple asynchronous request/response pairs over the same connection. Requests and responses are both *collections of unordered key/value pairs*.

**AMP** enables a rich set of Internet applications, ranging from traditional client-server APIs, to custom and efficient RPC protocols, to distributed peer-to-peer messaging topologies - or you may implement more advanced patterns such as a "spoke" topology where a central hub receives and routes messages to and from connected peers.

Once connected, :doc:`the AMP Conversation </conversations>` is symmetric, allowing either client or server to initiate an asynchronous request, provided that the other side of the connection implements a handler for it.

For values, **AMP** defines a number of :doc:`Standard Data Types </types>`, while keys are always strings.

**AMP** was originally developed by `Glyph Lefkowitz <https://github.com/glyph>`_ and appeared in `Twisted <https://twistedmatrix.com>`_, a Python networking framework - however **AMP**  is not Python or Twisted-specific.

Implementation are available for a wide variety of languages including Python 2.x/3.x, C/C++, C#, Java, PHP and many more! See the :doc:`Implementations Page </implementations>` for details.