An overview of RabbitMQ

As mentioned earlier, RabbitMQ is an open source Message Broker software that tries to solve messaging problems by implementing the AMQP. RabbitMQ is licensed with Mozilla Public License. RabbitMQ became part of GoPivotal in May 2013 and the community has helped in the development of RabbitMQ. Since then, the community has been trying to improve RabbitMQ.

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As we explained, RabbitMQ solves messaging problems; however, you may ask yourself what kind of messaging problems RabbitMQ solves. In summary, RabbitMQ has the following functionalities to solve messaging problems:

• Ensures that messages are sent and received
• Routes the messages to the correct destinations
• Saves the state of the messages
• Supports multiple transportation protocols (AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, HTTP)
• Supports clustering
• Highly scalable, reliable and available
• Extendible with plugins
• Supports clients for almost any of language
• Large community support also provides commercial support

Now that we have discussed the concepts behind the RabbitMQ, let's try to install and use RabbitMQ on your computer.