RabbitMQ in Depth

by Gavin M. Roy

Any large application needs an efficient way to handle the constant messages passing between components in the system. Billed as "messaging that just works," the RabbitMQ message broker initially appeals to developers because it's lightweight, easy to set up, and low maintenance. They stick with it, though, because it's powerful, fast, and up to nearly anything you can throw at it. This book takes you beyond the basics and explores the challenges of clustering and distributing messages across enterprise-level data-centers using RabbitMQ.

RabbitMQ in Depth is a practical guide to building and maintaining message-based systems. This book covers detailed architectural and operational use of RabbitMQ with an emphasis on not just how it works but why it works the way it does. You'll find examples and detailed explanations of everything from low-level communication to integration with third-party systems. You'll also find the insights you need to make core architectural choices and develop procedures for effective operational management.

Genres: Software, Computer Science, Programming, Technical, Computers, Technology

264 pages, Paperback

First published March 2, 2016

Reviews

[Miloš · Rating 5 out of 5]

Truly worthy of its name, RabbitMQ in Depth covers basically everything you'll ever need to know about RabbitMQ whether you're developing message publishers and consumers, tuning message throughput through clustering, integrating directly with databases or developing that hot new RabbitMQ plug-in.

Aside from covering a wide variety of topics, the parts that I as a developer found most useful and insightful were chapters 3 through 6 which deal with publishing and consuming of messages - packed with easy-to-follow examples written in Python, the chapters also feature various messaging patterns and best practices and also give careful consideration to performance impacts that each of the approaches incurs.

Filled with pragmatic advice and pearls of wisdom - it felt like I highlighted every other passage of selected chapters - this is the kind of book I wish I had when I first encountered RabbitMQ, years back.

[Denis Nuțiu · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent book on RabbitMQ, helped me understand how RabbitMQ works.

[Dmitry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Хороший обзор RabbitMQ, начиная от структуры сообщения и заканчивая federated exchange. Также даются примеры прямых интеграций с postgresql и influxdb, и описание какого-то http интерфейса, написанного автором, с последним коммитом в 2013. В целом понравилось, но надо быть внимательным, некоторые главы советую спорные решения или устаревшие тулы.

[Kristaps Fabiāns · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent and not too lengthy dive into the internals and common use cases for RabbitMQ.

[Hung · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for all level of engineers who is seeking for deep understanding about AMQP and RabbitMQ. The best part of the book is the very intuitive samples and easy to understand usecases.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice and detailed overview of RabbitMQ functionality. I specifically want to mention that the book covers a lot of ground - from low-level details of specification to the high-level typical use-cases and, in addition to that, contains well laid-out examples using Jupyter notebooks and Vagrant-based virtual machines, so it provides a lot of practical experience in addition to the theory.

[Oleksandr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of information about RabbitMQ.

Great book for architects and library developers.

The only thing that is currently missing is managing virtual hosts.