#89: RabbitMQ: A proven message broken for asynchronous communication

RabbitMQ is a message broker, allowing asynchronous communication in distrubuted systems. The key advantages of RabbitMQ include: 15 years of open source history, battle proven Erlang implementation and support for industry standard protocols. RabbitMQ is among the most popular implementations of message brokers. Others include ActiveMQ for Java, celery for Python and Kafka - if you consider it a message broker. Also, pretty much all cloud providers have their proprietary implementations, like, Google Pub/Sub, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Service Bus and so on. RabbitMQ at its core implements AMQP, a standard protocol for information interchange. So not only it’s open source, it’s also built on top of open standards.

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