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RabbitMQ in Depth is a practical guide to building and maintaining message-based applications. This book provides detailed coverage of RabbitMQ with an emphasis on why it works the way it does.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

At the heart of most modern distributed applications is a queue that buffers, prioritizes, and routes message traffic. RabbitMQ is a high-performance message broker based on the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol. It's battle tested, ultrafast, and powerful enough to handle anything you can throw at it. It requires a few simple setup steps, and you can instantly start using it to manage low-level service communication, application integration, and distributed system message routing.

About the Book

RabbitMQ in Depth is a practical guide to building and maintaining message-based applications. This book provides detailed coverage of RabbitMQ with an emphasis on why it works the way it does. You'll find examples and detailed explanations based in real-world systems ranging from simple networked services to complex distributed designs. You'll also find the insights you need to make core architectural choices and develop procedures for effective operational management.

What's Inside

• AMQP, the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol
• Communicating via MQTT, Stomp, and HTTP
• Valuable troubleshooting techniques
• Database integration

Written for programmers with a basic understanding of messaging-oriented systems.

About the Author

Gavin M. Roy is an active, open source evangelist and advocate who has been working with internet and enterprise technologies since the mid-90s. Technical editor James Titcumb is a freelance developer, trainer, speaker, and active contributor to open source projects.

Table of Contents

PART 1 - RABBITMQ AND APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE
1. Foundational RabbitMQ
2. How to speak Rabbit: the AMQ Protocol
3. An in-depth tour of message properties
4. Performance trade-offs in publishing
5. Don't get messages; consume them
6. Message patterns via exchange routing
PART 2 - MANAGING RABBITMQ IN THE DATA CENTER OR THE CLOUD
7. Scaling RabbitMQ with clusters
8. Cross-cluster message distribution
PART 3 - INTEGRATIONS AND CUSTOMIZATION
9. Using alternative protocols
10. Database integrations

Gavin M. Roy is an active open-source evangelist and advocate who has been working with Internet and Enterprise technologies since the mid-90's. As the CTO of MeetMe.com, Gavin implemented RabbitMQ as the core of MeetMe's event-based scalable application architecture. Gavin is a member of the Python Software Foundation and is the maintainer of pika, a pure-Python implementation of the AMQP protocol for RabbitMQ.