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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

Messaging and its use cases


As we discussed in the introduction of this chapter and in the first chapter, messaging is simply defined as communication between the message producer and the consumer of the message. Message broker is defined as a module that controls messaging flow. Controlling action isn't that simple, so message brokers needs lots of skills to accomplish this messaging functionality.

Before talking about the Message Broker functionalities, we need to know the problems that we have with the messaging. The problems change with respect to the domain of the software system; however, most of the problems are the same within the different types of messaging functionalities of the software systems. Let's list all of the common problems of messaging and how we solve these problems using message brokers.

Coupling of the software systems

Nowadays, coupling is generally referred to as the expression of dependency between two modules with respect to each other. Coupling, or more specifically...