Comments on: Rabbit behind the scenes

By: Richard Clayton

Richard Clayton — Thu, 07 May 2015 16:03:00 +0000

You really can’t compare RabbitMQ to ZeroMQ. ZeroMQ is a library, whereas RabbitMQ is a message broker. ZeroMQ will support the creation of special purpose messaging architectures at the cost of a lot of development time and testing. I wouldn’t recommend it as a solution unless you have already tried another message broker and found the performance unsuitable for your task. With something like RabbitMQ, you get a lot of security, reliability and routing features out of the box. Trying to get the equivalent amount of features out of a custom ZeroMQ solution would take a team years to replicate.

By: Andrea Nanni

Andrea Nanni — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 17:09:00 +0000

Rabbit lose compared to ZeroMq in terms of speed and flexibility. Built from the creator of the AMQP protocol (Pieter Hintjens), ZeroMq it’s a lego style approach to messaging. i used the Majordomo/Titanic pattern + Zyre to build a massive scraping platform that scales very well where workers nodes comes and go when requested, autodiscovered by a cluster of brokers. I can’t do this with Rabbit easily. Hintjens is doing this better with Malamute, a project which i suggest you to take a look. https://github.com/Malamute/malamute-core

By: Raham Rahim

Raham Rahim — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:09:48 +0000

Amazing post Ramiro.

I was actually looking for some tutorials about RabbitMQ and I came across your article. I also found these projects on GitHub that implements some messaging patterns ins case anyone will find it useful:

https://github.com/videlalvaro/Thumper
https://github.com/ebeyrent/Mopsy

Cheers

By: Ramiro

Ramiro — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:26:52 +0000

Very good explanation about queue usage.
In my previous workplace I used RabbitMQ to manage SMS messages for our service and it handled pretty well, since many times we had the telecom company broadcasting promotions to millions of users.