Rabbit’s queues reside in memory and will therefore be much faster than implementing this in a database. A (good)dedicated message queue should also provide essential queuing related features such as throttling/flow control, and the ability to choose different routing algorithms, to name a couple(rabbit provides these and more). Depending on the size of your project, … Read more
When you use a web service you have a client and a server: If the server fails the client must take responsibility to handle the error. When the server is working again the client is responsible of resending it. If the server gives a response to the call and the client fails the operation is … Read more
RabbitMQ is a solid, general-purpose message broker that supports several protocols such as AMQP, MQTT, STOMP, etc. It can handle high throughput. A common use case for RabbitMQ is to handle background jobs or long-running task, such as file scanning, image scaling or PDF conversion. RabbitMQ is also used between microservices, where it serves as … Read more
Edit: My initial answer had a strong focus on AMQP. I decided to rewrite it to offer a wider view on the topic. These 3 messaging technologies have different approaches on building distributed systems : RabbitMQ is one of the leading implementation of the AMQP protocol (along with Apache Qpid). Therefore, it implements a broker … Read more