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RabbitMQ Best Practices

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RabbitMQ is the most widely deployed open source message broker.

With more than 35,000 production deployments of RabbitMQ world-wide at small startups and large enterprises, RabbitMQ is the most popular open source message broker.

RabbitMQ is lightweight and easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud. It supports multiple messaging protocols. RabbitMQ can be deployed in distributed and federated configurations to meet high-scale, high-availability requirements.

RabbitMQ runs on many operating systems and cloud environments, and provides a wide range of developer tools for most popular languages.

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RabbitMQ Features

Asynchronous Messaging

Asynchronous Messaging

Supports multiple messaging protocols, message queuing, delivery acknowledgement, flexible routing to queues, multiple exchange type.

Developer Experience

Developer Experience

Deploy with BOSH, Chef, Docker and Puppet. Develop cross-language messaging with favorite programming languages such as: Java, .NET, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, and many others.

Distributed Deployment

Distributed Deployment

Deploy as clusters for high availability and throughput; federate across multiple availability zones and regions.

Enterprise & Cloud Ready

Enterprise & Cloud Ready

Pluggable authentication, authorization, supports TLS and LDAP. Lightweight and easy to deploy in public and private clouds.

Tools & Plugins

Tools & Plugins

Diverse array of tools and plugins supporting continuous integration, operational metrics, and integration to other enterprise systems. Flexible plug-in approach for extending RabbitMQ functionality.

Management & Monitoring

Management & Monitoring

HTTP-API, command line tool, and UI for managing and monitoring RabbitMQ.

Get Started

Download + Installation

Servers and clients for popular operating systems and languages

RabbitMQ Tutorials

Hands-on examples to get you started with RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ Commercial Services

Commercial Distribution

Pivotal Software produces a commercial distribution called Pivotal RabbitMQ, as well as a version that deploys in Pivotal Cloud Foundry. These distributions include all of the features of the open source version, with RabbitMQ for Pivotal Cloud Foundry providing some additional management features. Support agreements are part of the commercial licensing.

Support + Hosting

Pivotal Software provides support for open source RabbitMQ. The following companies provide technical support and/or cloud hosting of open source RabbitMQ: CloudAMQP, Erlang Solutions, Visual Integrator, Inc and Google Cloud Platform. RabbitMQ can also be deployed in AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Training

The following companies provide free, virtual, or instructor-led courses for RabbitMQ: Pivotal Software, Erlang Solutions, Visual Integrator, Inc and LearnQuest.

Community


Mailing List Slack Channel

Meet your fellow Rabbits to share stories, advice, and get help.

Issues & Bug Reports

Start by searching the Mailing List archive and known issues on Github. It’s very likely fellow users have raised the same issue.

Contributions

RabbitMQ welcomes contributions from the community. Please see our Contributors Page to learn more.

Contact Us

Commercial inquiries

Pivotal Sales | Pivotal Support

Other inquiries

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