Configuring a message bus (RabbitMQ or Azure Service Bus)

After waxing poetic about messaging buses and queues, we can finally discuss two excellent options for facilitating message-based service communication. They are RabbitMQ and Azure Service Bus.

These are by no means the only options, nor are they the best, but they are popular and can get the job done. Alternatives that you may encounter include Apache Kafka, which is famed for its high performance and low latency, or Redis Cache, which can double as a simple key-value caching store but also as a message broker. Ultimately, the tool you use is relative to what you need and what the tool offers your context.

Let us explore how we can integrate with RabbitMQ in a .NET Core application.

Implementing RabbitMQ in an ASP.NET Core web API

RabbitMQ is the most deployed and used open source message broker, at least at the time of writing. It supports multiple operating systems, has a ready-to-go container image, and is a...