RabbitMQ in Action: Distributed Messaging for Everyone 1st edition by Videla, Alvaro, Williams, Jason J. W. (2012) Paperback

by Alvaro Videla

There's a virtual switchboard at the heart of most large applications, where millions of messages and requests need to be routed to and from the servers, programs, and services that make up the system. RabbitMQ is an efficient, highly scalable, and easy-to-deploy queue that makes handling this message traffic virtually effortless. Offered under an open source license and language neutral, RabbitMQ integrates seamlessly into applications written in written in C++, Java, Python, Erlang, and other standard languages.RabbitMQ in Action is a fast-paced run through building and managing scalable applications using the RabbitMQ messaging server. It starts by explaining how message queuing works, its history and how RabbitMQ fits in. Then it shows real-world examples developers can apply to their own scalability and interoperability challenges.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Computer Science, Technical, Software, Computers, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Sebastian Gebski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite a decent introduction to interesting technology - does its job: give you enough info to start actually using that, not in the most simple (tutorial-alike) scenarios. What am I missing? First, there are very little details about AMQP - what are the practical differences between the standard and its predecessors. I'd expect even more: I'd like some kind of comparison between RabbitMQ and its main competitors, especially ActiveMQ and MSMQ. Without this information why should I even pick RabbitMQ?

Sadly, it seems that the authors (pretty close linked with the RabbitMQ itself) have a very little "commercial mindset". Another proof for that is using PHP as a sample language for large part of the examples in the book. Sure, plenty of people do use PHP, it's simple and easy to understand, but it's used mainly to do simple website and who would use MOM in such circumstances?

Anyway, it still is a good introductory book to RabbitMQ that plays its role.

[Verisimilitude · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grounds Up introduction to Message Queuing, AQMP and concepts of RabbitMQ. Pretty easy to read and follow from the examples if done concurrently.

[Dávid Molnár · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice book about RabbitMQ. It’s a good starting point, as it covers the fundamental concepts of messaging.

It’s slightly outdated now, the 2.7 RabbitMQ is used in the book, so they don’t cover some new features (quorum queues or consumer prefetch).

It’s definitely worth to read!

[Frank Palardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

First intro to this subject. Not bad.

[Mikhail Sergeev · Rating 3 out of 5]

Книга довольно старая, некоторые важные особенности RabbitMQ еще не описаны.
Очень не хватает сравнения с Кафкой, которая на тот момент еще зарождалась.

[Zack · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's an okay book. It's already dated by many versions (book is at ~2.7, RMQ is at 3.5+).

Most interesting to me were the introductory chapters as overview of messaging history and purpose. For actual implementation details, I think the official online resources are sufficient (actually really good).

[Eloi Poch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting book. You do not need any previous knowledge about message queing because the book takes you from nothing to I am capable of.

The little drawback for me is the leack of more message design patterns to resolve common stuff.

[Curtis Penner · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is just another computer how to book.

[Ehsan · Rating 4 out of 5]

all examples in this book in PHP and Payton but very nicely commented and you will find this useful.

[Lisandro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Góis introduction to rabbitMQ. Cover the basics from the programming side but have a more in depth view from the infrastructure side.

[Dmitry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Admit, there is no many book about RabbitMQ, what makes this quite good book even better, isnt it?