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RabbitMQ Essentials

You're reading from   RabbitMQ Essentials Build distributed and scalable applications with message queuing using RabbitMQ

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789131666
Length 154 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Lovisa Johansson Lovisa Johansson
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A Rabbit Springs to Life

Messaging or message queuing is a method of communication between applications or components. Thanks to message queues, these applications can remain completely separate as they process their individual tasks. Messages are typically small requests, replies, status updates, or even just information. A message queue provides a temporary place for these messages to stay, allowing applications to send and receive them as necessary.

RabbitMQ is an open source message broker that acts as the intermediary or middleman for independent applications, giving them a common platform to communicate. RabbitMQ mainly uses an Erlang-based implementation of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), which supports advanced features such as clustering and the complex routing of messages.

This chapter includes information about how to get started with RabbitMQ, and why...

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