Chapter 1. Getting Started

Scalability is one of the major problems of our time, and messaging is an integral part of the solution. It finally comes down to the message broker software to manage and control messaging between applications, processes, and threads. Message brokers can help to solve scalability issues and architectural issues, such as coupling.

RabbitMQ is one of the most powerful open source message broker software that is widely used in the tech companies such as Mozilla, VMware, Google, AT&T, and so on. RabbitMQ is a highly configurable messaging platform developed and supported by a knowledgeable and committed community.

Before diving into the details and technologies behind the RabbitMQ, let's introduce you to the topics that we will cover in this chapter:

• A brief introduction to message brokers and the message queue
• An introduction to advanced message queue protocol
• Getting started with RabbitMQ
• Installing RabbitMQ
• Starting RabbitMQ
• Summary