The Hare Wins the Race: Getting the most out of RabbitMQ in distributed applications

Link to the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXkhJ92-fsY

Setting up the environment

Mac

Install using Homebrew

brew install rabbitmq

Add RabbitMQ to launchctl to launch the broker on startup (Optional)

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/rabbitmq/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.rabbitmq.plist

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/sklarsa/rabbitmq-presentation.git

Create a virtual environment and install the requirements

cd rabbitmq-presentation
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Examples

Path	Description	How to run
amqp_example.py	Basic broker communication using pika	python amqp_example.py
celery_example_1	Celery example with default config	cd celery_example_1; ./run_example.sh
celery_example_2	Celery example with advanced routing	cd celery_example_2; ./run_example.sh
ae_example.py	Alternate exchange usage to catch unrouted messages	python ae_example.py

Links

AMQP and RabbitMQ

• https://www.amqp.org/
• http://www.rabbitmq.com/

Python Packages

• https://github.com/celery/librabbitmq
• https://github.com/celery/py-amqp
• https://github.com/pika/pika
• https://github.com/celery/kombu

Celery

• http://celeryproject.org/