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Mastering RabbitMQ

By : Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum
Book Image

Mastering RabbitMQ

By: Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is one of the most powerful Open Source message broker software, which is widely used in tech companies such as Mozilla, VMware, Google, AT&T, and so on. RabbitMQ gives you lots of fantastic and easy-to-manage functionalities to control and manage the messaging facility with lots of community support. As scalability is one of our major modern problems, messaging with RabbitMQ is the main part of the solution to this problem This book explains and demonstrates the RabbitMQ server in a detailed way. It provides you with lots of real-world examples and advanced solutions to tackle the scalability issues. You’ll begin your journey with the installation and configuration of the RabbitMQ server, while also being given specific details pertaining to the subject. Next, you’ll study the major problems that our server faces, including scalability and high availability, and try to get the solutions for both of these issues by using the RabbitMQ mechanisms. Following on from this, you’ll get to design and develop your own plugins using the Erlang language and RabbitMQ’s internal API. This knowledge will help you to start with the management and monitoring of the messages, tools, and applications. You’ll also gain an understanding of the security and integrity of the messaging facilities that RabbitMQ provides. In the last few chapters, you will build and keep track of your clients (senders and receivers) using Java, Python, and C#.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering RabbitMQ
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

An introduction to the advanced message queue protocol


John O'Hara from J. P. Morgan started AMQP in 2003. He put incredible amount of work into it. Then, J. P. Morgan approached other firms to establish an organization for creating open standards in messaging. According to AMOP's official website (http://www.amqp.org), AMQP is an open standard for passing messages between applications or organizations. So, AMQP just defines the messaging properties, queue properties, how messages are routed between applications and clients, how Message Brokers ensure that the message is received or sent, and other concerns such as reliability and security.

According to the AMQP website (http://www.amqp.org), AMQP has lots of capabilities to accomplish goals:

  • Security

  • Reliability

  • Interoperability

  • Standard

  • Open standard

Interoperability and reliability are very important for today's software engineering problems. The power of AMQP comes from its features like interoperability, reliability and so forth. Especially, with interoperability, we can use different types of technologies in sender and receiver. The main problem for most of the Internet giants is scalability. Scalability has direct relationship to reliability. Chapter 3, Architecture and Messaging, covers the details and specifications of AMQP.