In previous post, I mentioned the discussion on StackOverflow regarding designing exchanges. Usually, when people ask about best practice of designing exchanges, you will get some useful suggestions, but finally you will be told that the final solution always “depends on your system needs”. Fair enough & safe enough answer, but not really helpful enough. So I want to extend this discussion a little bit here with more detailed backgrounds....
In previous post, I compared the difference of ActiveMQ (JMS) and RabbitMQ (AMQP)’s design philosophy. RabbitMQ has its beauty of simplicity in its design with 5 exchange types. In this post, I want to clarify the understanding of RabbitMQ’s exchange & queue and their relationship - binding. In brief, exchanges are the only places where messages could be published to; while queues are the only places where messages could be consumed from....
The underlying philosophy behind RabbitMQ ’exchange types'
Tips to change RabbitMQ Queue Parameters in Production