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RabbitMQ Essentials - Second Edition

By : Lovisa Johansson, David Dossot
Book Image

RabbitMQ Essentials - Second Edition

By: Lovisa Johansson, David Dossot

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is an open source message queuing software that acts as a message broker using the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). This book will help you to get to grips with RabbitMQ to build your own applications with a message queue architecture. You’ll learn from the experts from CloudAMQP as they share what they've learned while managing the largest fleet of RabbitMQ clusters in the world. Following the case study of Complete Car, you’ll discover how you can use RabbitMQ to provide exceptional customer service and user experience, and see how a message queue architecture makes it easy to upgrade the app and add features as the company grows. From implementing simple synchronous operations through to advanced message routing and tracking, you’ll explore how RabbitMQ streamlines scalable operations for fast distribution. This book will help you understand the advantages of message queue architecture, including application scalability, resource efficiency, and user reliability. Finally, you’ll learn best practices for working with RabbitMQ and be able to use this book as a reference guide for your future app development projects. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to use message queuing software to streamline the development of your distributed and scalable applications.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Handling dead letters

Things are going very well at Complete Car (CC). The driver-information message feature is gaining traction as more and more drivers join the company. After a few months of activity, one thing becomes clear: not all taxi drivers log in to the application every day, which leads to messages piling up in taxi inbox queues.

Though the amount of data is not detrimental to the system, the idea of having messages lying around in queues, potentially forever, is not satisfactory. Imagine a taxi driver logging in after a couple of weeks of vacation and being flooded with obsolete messages—this is the negative type of user experience that CC is keen to avoid.

CC decides to address this by specifying a new rule: after one week, any message that is not delivered will be dealt with in one of two ways:

  • It will be emailed to the user if it's an important information message.
  • It will be discarded if it's an information message concerning the current traffic situation...