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Mastering RabbitMQ

By : Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum
Book Image

Mastering RabbitMQ

By: Yusuf Aytas, Emrah Ayanoglu, Dotan Nahum

Overview of this book

RabbitMQ is one of the most powerful Open Source message broker software, which is widely used in tech companies such as Mozilla, VMware, Google, AT&T, and so on. RabbitMQ gives you lots of fantastic and easy-to-manage functionalities to control and manage the messaging facility with lots of community support. As scalability is one of our major modern problems, messaging with RabbitMQ is the main part of the solution to this problem This book explains and demonstrates the RabbitMQ server in a detailed way. It provides you with lots of real-world examples and advanced solutions to tackle the scalability issues. You’ll begin your journey with the installation and configuration of the RabbitMQ server, while also being given specific details pertaining to the subject. Next, you’ll study the major problems that our server faces, including scalability and high availability, and try to get the solutions for both of these issues by using the RabbitMQ mechanisms. Following on from this, you’ll get to design and develop your own plugins using the Erlang language and RabbitMQ’s internal API. This knowledge will help you to start with the management and monitoring of the messages, tools, and applications. You’ll also gain an understanding of the security and integrity of the messaging facilities that RabbitMQ provides. In the last few chapters, you will build and keep track of your clients (senders and receivers) using Java, Python, and C#.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering RabbitMQ
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Pika


We'll start with a Python RabbitMQ client called Pika that offers a good balance between low-level and high-level APIs and developer happiness. Other libraries such as py-amqplib and txAMQP are also good to use, but they provide a different kind of balance (mostly towards low-level) and will not be covered here. As always, you are free to try them out, but my recommendation is that you try to do it only after you have grasped a good understanding of Pika.

Installing Pika

Let's install Pika on our workstations.

Before this, let's ensure we have an appropriate package manager already provisioned on our machines.

On Linux (Ubuntu), type this at your terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip git-core

On Windows, type this:

First, make sure to use the setup tools installer at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools.Then, run this command:

>easy_install pip

Now, we can install Pika.

Type these commands into your machine's terminal:

On Linux (Ubuntu) type this at your terminal:

$ sudo pip install...