RabbitMQ

AMQPAdvanced Message Queuing Protocol

Why?

• open industry standard

• not language dependent

• open and commercial implementations on both ends

• some big players on board

• Barclays Bank PLC • Cisco Systems, Inc. • Credit Suisse • Deutsche Börse Systems • Envoy Technologies Inc. • Goldman Sachs • iMatix Corporation • IONA Technologies • JPMorgan Chase Bank & Co. • Microsoft Corporation • Novell • Rabbit Technologies, a joint venture of CohesiveFT and LShift • Red Hat, Inc. • Solace Systems, Inc. • Tervela, Inc. • TWIST Process Innovations • WSO2, Inc. • 29West Inc.

so, what is messaging?

traditional FIFO

Queue

push pull

messaging

Queue

push push

why is it better?

• lower latency as messages are pushed

• less load “just sit and wait”

• way advanced stuff if you look at AMQP

which is?

• user auth

• loadbalancing

• persistent vs non persistent messages

• advanced message routing

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ

Exchange

QueueQueue

pretty standard messaging

now starts the fun stuff

RabbitMQ

Queue

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ

Queue

AMQP

RabbitMQ

XMPP STOMP HTTP

XMPP STOMP HTTPAMQP

AMQP

RabbitMQ

XMPP STOMP HTTP

XMPP STOMP HTTPAMQP

AMQP

RabbitMQ

XMPP STOMP HTTP

XMPP STOMP HTTPAMQP

and that is only queue handling ...

queues

• can be persistent

• can be deleted when empty

• can be deleted when server stops

messages

• can be persistent

• can be in memory only

• might be persisted if not enough memory

client libs?

what was it built for?

• financial systems

• many messages

• fast message transport

• reliable message transport

what is it written in?

obviously ...

how to get started?

• http://rabbitmq.com (get rabbit here)

• http://github.com/norbu09/RabbitIntro (for some small code samples)

• ask: rabbitmq mailing list

or ask me if you are local

lenz@ideegeo.com

@norbu09

thanks

• the RabbitMQ guys for an awesome product

• iWantMyName for letting me play with all that stuff

• many guys on the mailing list for helping me out when i got stuck

• catalyst IT for the venue

credits

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/88586913@N00/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewleavy/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/revengingangel/

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/oreillygmt/