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RabbitMQ Cookbook

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RabbitMQ Cookbook

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software (sometimes called message-oriented middleware) that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). The RabbitMQ server is written in the Erlang programming language and is built on the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering and failover. Messaging enables software applications to connect and scale. Applications can connect to each other as components of a larger application or to user devices and data. RabbitMQ Cookbook touches on all the aspects of RabbitMQ messaging. You will learn how to use this enabling technology for the solution of highly scalable problems dictated by the dynamic requirements of Web and mobile architectures, based for example on cloud computing platforms. This is a practical guide with several examples that will help you to understand the usefulness and the power of RabbitMQ. This book helps you learn the basic functionalities of RabbitMQ with simple examples which describe the use of RabbitMQ client APIs and how a RabbitMQ server works. You will find examples of RabbitMQ deployed in real-life use-cases, where its functionalities will be exploited combined with other technologies. This book helps you understand the advanced features of RabbitMQ that are useful for even the most demanding programmer. Over the course of the book, you will learn about the usage of basic AMQP functionalities and use RabbitMQ to let decoupled applications exchange messages as per enterprise integration applications. The same building blocks are used to implement the architecture of highly scalable applications like today's social networks, and they are presented in the book with some examples. You will also learn how to extend RabbitMQ functionalities by implementing Erlang plugins. This book combines information with detailed examples coupled with screenshots and diagrams to help you create a messaging application with ease.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
RabbitMQ Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using different distribution tools


When the application needs performance, you have to choose the right distribution tool. In this example, we will show the differences between publishing a message between a mirrored queue and non-mirrored one.

Getting ready

You need Java 1.7 or higher and Apache Maven.

How to do it…

You can use the source code from the Improving bandwidth recipe, then you have to create a RabbitMQ cluster with two nodes.

How it works…

A cluster using HA mirrored queues is slower than a single broker. Higher the number of mirroring servers, slower the application will be because the producer can send more messages only after the message being sent is stored to all the mirrors.

Note

That's not as bad as it might seem. On one side, the distribution toward the nodes of the cluster is performed in parallel, so the overhead does not grow linearly with the number of nodes. On the other side, the replication is usually limited to two or three replicas at the most, as we saw in Chapter...