What is Rabbitmq and core concepts ?

Let’s go in another technology !! Let’s go to discover rabbitmq.

A message broker

What is it ?

• Ensure communication between services or microservices
• Like a database but to store ordered messages
• It’s a message queue not a commitlog (like kafka)
• Connect message producers to message consumers

And from ?

• Created in 2007 by Rabbitmq Technologies company
• Acquired by SpringSource in 2010
• And now SpringSource is a property of vmware

Some other elements ?

• Git : https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-server
• Doc : https://www.rabbitmq.com/
• Language : Erlang

An asynchronous system

Rabbitmq allows you to build an asynchronous architecture.

On one side, the producer (or producers) create messages that need to be handle by another application (it’s a common use case in micro-service architecture but not only).