As the workload of CSN continued to increase and the CSN team expanded as well, a number of new enhancements to the system were introduced:
The CSN web and worker nodes were refactored to use Spring AMQP instead of the Java client library for communication with the broker, which improved maintenance of the nodes.
The browser plugin used to accept chat messages was removed in favor of SockJS websockets used along with the newly provisioned rabbitmq-web-stomp plugin. This further improved the maintenance of the system.
A separate application was used to store data from the broker to the Oracle database, but it was decommissioned in favor of the Java stored procedures used to retrieve messages from the broker for the purposes of backup.
More integration tests to test the communication with the message broker were introduced as part of the system building.
Puppet scripts to deploy the separate components of the system, including the RabbitMQ broker...