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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 overview of RabbitMQ


As mentioned earlier, RabbitMQ is an open source Message Broker software that tries to solve messaging problems by implementing the AMQP. RabbitMQ is licensed with Mozilla Public License. RabbitMQ became part of GoPivotal in May 2013 and the community has helped in the development of RabbitMQ. Since then, the community has been trying to improve RabbitMQ.

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As we explained, RabbitMQ solves messaging problems; however, you may ask yourself what kind of messaging problems RabbitMQ solves. In summary, RabbitMQ has the following functionalities to solve messaging problems:

  • Ensures that messages are sent and received

  • Routes the messages to the correct destinations

  • Saves the state of the messages

  • Supports multiple transportation protocols (AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, HTTP)

  • Supports clustering

  • Highly scalable, reliable and available

  • Extendible with plugins

  • Supports clients for almost any of language

  • Large community support also provides commercial support

Now that we have discussed the concepts behind the RabbitMQ, let's try to install and use RabbitMQ on your computer.