RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is a messaging broker. It gives your application a common platform to send and receive messages.

Overall AMQ model

                                    Server
                        +----------------------------+
                        |        Virtual host        |
                        |    +-------------------+   |
                        |    |      Exchange     |   |
   +-------------+      |    |      +-------+    |   |
   | Publisher   |    ---------->   |       |    |   |
   | application |      |    |      +---+---+    |   |
   +-------------+      |    |          |        |   |
                        |    |       Message     |   |
                        |    |        Queue      |   |
   +-------------+      |    |      +-------+    |   |
   |  Consumer   |   <-----------   +-------+    |   |
   | application |      |    |      +-------+    |   |
   +-------------+      |    |      +-------+    |   |
                        |    +-------------------+   |
                        +----------------------------+

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• Concept

• Broker

• Consumer

• Cluster

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• Protocol

Further Readings

• Some queuing theory: throughput, latency and bandwidth

• RabbitMQ Performance Measurement - Part I

• RabbitMQ Performance Measurement - Part 2

• Advanced Message Queuing Protocol - Protocol Specification

• RabbitMQ in Action

• Very fast and scalable topic routing

• RabbitMQ Blog

• RabbitMQ Hits One Million Messages Per Second on Google Compute Engine