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Learning RabbitMQ

By : Martin Toshev
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Learning RabbitMQ

By: Martin Toshev

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is Open Source Message Queuing software based on the Advanced Message Queue Protocol Standard written in the Erlang Language. RabbitMQ is an ideal candidate for large-scale projects ranging from e-commerce and finance to Big Data and social networking because of its ease of use and high performance. Managing RabbitMQ in such a dynamic environment can be a challenging task that requires a good understanding not only of how to work properly with the message broker but also of its best practices and pitfalls. Learning RabbitMQ starts with a concise description of messaging solutions and patterns, then moves on to concrete practical scenarios for publishing and subscribing to the broker along with basic administration. This knowledge is further expanded by exploring how to establish clustering and high availability at the level of the message broker and how to integrate RabbitMQ with a number of technologies such as Spring, and enterprise service bus solutions such as MuleESB and WSO2. We will look at advanced topics such as performance tuning, secure messaging, and the internals of RabbitMQ. Finally we will work through case-studies so that we can see RabbitMQ in action and, if something goes wrong, we'll learn to resolve it in the Troubleshooting section.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning RabbitMQ
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Case study: scaling the CSN


Over time, the users of the CSN increased rapidly and the workload of the system was increasing even more rapidly on a daily basis. It was estimated that this growth might cause issues with the single RabbitMQ broker instance, which essentially turned out to be a bottleneck.

That is why the team behind the CSN decided to introduce several new RabbitMQ instances installed on separate powerful servers and separate the queues from the v_events vhost on one node and the queues from the v_chat host on two other nodes:

This not only improved the performance of the system (as shown by the benchmarks the CSN did over the new configuration) but also mitigated the risk of resource depletion on the single RabbitMQ server the system had.

Note that we are providing clustering support only on behalf of the message broker and this concept can be applied to the other components of the system.