RabbitMQ

AMQP
Advanced 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

push pull
Queue

messaging

push push
Queue

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
Queue Queue

pretty standard
messaging

now starts the fun stuff

RabbitMQ RabbitMQ
Queue

RabbitMQ
Queue

AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP
RabbitMQ
AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP

AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP
RabbitMQ AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP
AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP RabbitMQ
AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP

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

credits
• 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

• 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/