slides to a talk about RabbitMQ I gave at erlounge wellington in july 2009.

1. RabbitMQ

3. AMQP
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol

4. Why?
• open industry standard
• not language dependent
• open and commercial implementations on
both ends
• some big players on board

5. •
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.

6. so, what is messaging?

7. traditional FIFO

8. push pull
Queue

9. messaging

10. push push
Queue

11. why is it better?
• lower latency as messages are pushed
• less load “just sit and wait”
• way advanced stuff if you look at AMQP

12. which is?
• user auth
• loadbalancing
• persistent vs non persistent messages
• advanced message routing

13. RabbitMQ

14. RabbitMQ
Exchange
Queue Queue

15. pretty standard
messaging

17. now starts the fun stuff

18. RabbitMQ RabbitMQ
Queue

19. RabbitMQ
Queue

20. AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP
RabbitMQ
AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP

21. AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP
RabbitMQ AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP
AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP RabbitMQ
AMQP XMPP STOMP HTTP

22. and that is only queue
handling ...

24. queues
• can be persistent
• can be deleted when empty
• can be deleted when server stops

25. messages
• can be persistent
• can be in memory only
• might be persisted if not enough memory

26. client libs?

28. what was it built for?

29. • financial systems
• many messages
• fast message transport
• reliable message transport

30. what is it written in?

32. obviously ...

33. how to get started?

34. • http://rabbitmq.com (get rabbit here)
• http://github.com/norbu09/RabbitIntro (for
some small code samples)
• ask: rabbitmq mailing list

35. or ask me if you are local
lenz@ideegeo.com
@norbu09

36. thanks

37. 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

38. • 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/