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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

Messaging patterns in RabbitMQ


Messaging patterns in RabbitMQ are implemented based on exchanges, queues, and the bindings between them. We can distinguish between the different approaches for implementing a design pattern with RabbitMQ:

  • For point-to-point communication between the publisher and the broker you can use a default or a direct exchange in order to deliver a message to a single queue. However, note that there might be multiple subscribers to this single queue, thus implementing publish-subscribe between the broker and the message receivers bound to that queue.

  • For publish-subscribe, we can use a fanout exchange, which will deliver a message from an exchange to all queues that are bound to this exchange; in this manner, we may have a queue-per-subscriber strategy for implementing publish-subscribe.

  • For request-response communication, we can use two separate exchanges and two queues; the publisher sets a message identifier in the message header and sends the request message to the...