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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: CSN (Corporate Social Network)


The Corporate Social Network (CSN) is a social networking service that is being deployed in an enterprise and allows its users to upload content and interact with each other. In particular, the system allows the user to post blogs, upload files, subscribe to other user profiles (in order to track the activity of other users), and chat with other users. The social network uses RabbitMQ in order to process events that have been triggered by user activity, trigger long-running jobs (such as batch file uploading), and serve as a backbone for the delivery of chat messages from the chat feature of the social network. The following diagram provides a high-level overview of the components of the system:

We will design the system from the very beginning and then start expanding it. In the meantime, we will demonstrate the various capabilities of RabbitMQ by applying them to the extensions of the social network.