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Mastering  Node.js

You're reading from   Mastering Node.js Build robust and scalable real-time server-side web applications efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888960
Length 498 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sandro Pasquali Sandro Pasquali
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Kevin Faaborg Kevin Faaborg
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Preface 1. Understanding the Node Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming 3. Streaming Data Across Nodes and Clients 4. Using Node to Access the Filesystem 5. Managing Many Simultaneous Client Connections 6. Creating Real-Time Applications 7. Using Multiple Processes 8. Scaling Your Application 9. Microservices 10. Testing Your Application 11. Organizing Your Work into Modules 12. Creating Your Own C++ Add-ons

Message queues – RabbitMQ

One of the best ways to ensure that distributed servers maintain a dependable communication channel is to bundle the complexity of remote procedure calls into a distinct unit-a messaging queue. When one process wishes to send a message to another process, the message can simply be placed on this queue-like a to-do list for your application, with the queue service doing the work of ensuring that messages get delivered as well as delivering any important replies back to the original sender.

There are a few enterprise-grade message queues available, many of them deploying AMQP (Advanced Message Queueing Protocol). We will focus on a very stable and well-known implementation—RabbitMQ.

To install RabbitMQ in your environment, follow the instructions found at: https://www.rabbitmq.com/download.html.

Once installed, you will start the RabbitMQ...

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