About This Book

RabbitMQ is an open source message broker written in Erlang, currently under the wing of Pivotal Software. It’s based around the AMQP open protocol, with official client libraries in Java, .NET, Erlang, as well as libraries for most other popular programming languages.

This book is up-to-date with RabbitMQ 3.6.3, so with the erratic release schedule of RabbitMQ itself, by the time this book reaches you there may be newer versions released. Not to fret though, as in our experience RabbitMQ has rarely broken features with releases, only added new features and fixed issues!

The code examples used throughout the book are written with Python, but if you don’t have a working setup with Python and RabbitMQ, or you’d just like to experiment ...

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