Chapter 1. A Rabbit Springs to Life
Messaging or message queuing is a style of communication between applications or components that enables a loosely coupled architecture. Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is a specification that defines the semantics of an interoperable messaging protocol. RabbitMQ is an Erlang-based implementation of AMQP, which supports advanced features such as clustering.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Introducing concepts and terminology related to messaging
- Discovering AMQP and RabbitMQ
- Presenting the context in which all the book's examples will take place
- Installing and configuring RabbitMQ
What is messaging?
Smoke signals, couriers, carrier pigeons, and semaphores: if this was a riddle, you would ...
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