Chapter 4. Solving problems with Rabbit: coding and patterns

 

This chapter covers

  • Designing applications toward messaging
  • Messaging patterns
  • Fire-and-forget models
  • RPC with RabbitMQ

 

At this point you know how to install, configure, and even run Rabbit in production. It’s about time we got to some coding. First, you need to understand problems you’re trying to solve when you code messaging into your apps. Like a lot of people who discover RabbitMQ, your lovable authors weren’t looking for a message queue; we were looking to solve a decoupling problem. How do you take a time-intensive task and move it out of the app that triggers it (thereby freeing that app to service other requests)? Also, how do you glue together applications written ...

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