Exploring the AMQP model with Bunny

Let's continue on with Bunny by exploring a bit more of the AMQP model. As it stands, the AMQP model is so powerful that it will let you abstract out a lot of messaging architectures pretty easily (I personally think that only ZeroMQ comes close to it in the same way as being a building block of many other concepts within the world of messaging).

Let's continue case by case.

Workers

Let's touch the concept of background queues and workers lightly. I say lightly because I plan to introduce a popular and production grade background jobs library called Sneakers – by yours truly, later on in this chapter.

The concept of workers is very close to what we've seen so far. We will only slightly change the semantics of our ...

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