RabbitMQ in Action: Distributed Messaging for Everyone

314 Pages·2012·7.98 MB·English

by  Alvaro Videla

IN ACTION
Distributed messaging for everyone
Alvaro Videla
Jason J.W. Williams

FOREWORD BY
A R
LEXIS ICHARDSON
M A N N I N G
RabbitMQ in Action

RabbitMQ in Action
DISTRIBUTED MESSAGING FOR EVERYONE
ALVARO VIDELA
JASON J.W. WILLIAMS
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To my grandfather, Maximiliano Godoy,
who showed me the ways of life. Gracias.
—A.V.
To Mama, Papa, and my sister J’aime.
Your love, support, and faith in me
has made it possible to climb mountains...
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—J.W.

brief contents
1 ■ Pulling RabbitMQ out of the hat 1
2 ■ Understanding messaging 12
3 ■ Running and administering Rabbit 37
4 ■ Solving problems with Rabbit: coding and patterns 60
5 ■ Clustering and dealing with failure 87
6 ■ Writing code that survives failure 107
7 ■ Warrens and Shovels: failover and replication 120
8 ■ Administering RabbitMQ from the Web 137
9 ■ Controlling Rabbit with the REST API 154
10 ■ Monitoring: Houston, we have a problem 167
11 ■ Supercharging and securing your Rabbit 195
12 ■ Smart Rabbits: extending RabbitMQ 216
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contents
foreword xv
preface xvii
acknowledgments xix
about this book xxi
about the cover illustration xxiv
1 Pulling RabbitMQ out of the hat 1
1.1 Living in other people’s dungeons 3
1.2 AMQP to the rescue 5
1.3 A brief history of RabbitMQ 5
1.4 Picking RabbitMQ out of the hat (and other open
options) 8
1.5 Installing RabbitMQ on Unix systems 8
Why environment matters—living la vida Erlang 8 ■ Getting the
package 9 ■ Setting up the folder structure 9 ■ Firing Rabbit up
for the first time 9
1.6 Summary 10
2 Understanding messaging 12
2.1 Consumers and producers (not an economics lesson) 13
2.2 Building from the bottom: queues 16
2.3 Getting together: exchanges and bindings 20
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