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Your options for supporting legacy RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ 3.x support is ending – what are your options? TL;DR; Your options are:1. Upgrade now and stay on the supported path.2. Keep your legacy supported and make the upgrade manageable. How? Keep on reading!3. Risk losing support. What are your options for ongoing RabbitMQ support? Take a look at the options below that team…
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Is RabbitMQ Open Source? Do You Need a Commercial License?
Is RabbitMQ Open Source? Do You Need a Commercial License? RabbitMQ is one of the world’s most widely deployed open-source message brokers, built on a reliable Erlang foundation and designed to run across distributed nodes in your backend systems, handling message queues, message delivery, and high-throughput workloads across industries. But one of the most common…
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RabbitMQ Metrics For Beginners: Message Queue Monitoring Guide
Beginner’s Guide to RabbitMQ Metrics: Your First Step to Message Queue Monitoring Monitoring is the heartbeat of any production system, and RabbitMQ is no exception. Whether you’re just starting your journey with message queues or looking to improve your existing RabbitMQ deployment, understanding metrics is crucial for maintaining healthy, performant systems. In this beginner’s guide,…
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Understanding RabbitMQ Architecture: The Message Broker’s Queues, Exchanges, and Other Components
Understanding RabbitMQ Architecture: The Message Broker’s Queues, Exchanges, and Other Components So, you’re planning to build an application that uses microservices to make it faster and more scalable. You’ve been considering various message brokers when you come across RabbitMQ. Everything you read about it says the RabbitMQ architecture is extremely suitable for distributed, concurrent, and…
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Seventh State PauseR Plugin
Seventh State PauseR Plugin From Mnesia to Khepri RabbitMQ previously stored data using Mnesia, whose design meant that when a network partition happened, the cluster could end up running separate, independent versions of itself. Each partition would keep processing data on its own, without knowing what the other side was doing. This led to a…
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RabbitMQ Exchange vs Queues: What’s the Difference?
RabbitMQ Exchange vs Queues: What’s the Difference? Exchanges and queues are two of the most critical features of RabbitMQ; the core of its message brokering capabilities, if you will. But despite their importance, there are a lot of misconceptions around what they do and how they function together. They work together to move messages from…
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RabbitMQ as a Service
RabbitMQ as a Service (SaaS): What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Choose the Right Fit TL;Dr Considering managed RabbitMQ? Tell us what you need » Why “RabbitMQ as a Service” Is Suddenly Everywhere RabbitMQ has long been the go-to open-source message broker for decoupled, fault-tolerant systems. But running it yourself means configuring…
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RabbitMQ Plugins: SafeConX Connection Stability & Partition Recovery
Enhancing RabbitMQ Stability: The SafeConX Plug-in for Partition Recovery and Split Brain Prevention In modern distributed systems, ensuring consistency and resilience during network disruptions is critical. RabbitMQ, known for its robustness, performs well in stable networks—but when faced with partitions or rapid failovers, clusters can behave unpredictably, potentially leading to data inconsistency or split brain…
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You’ve got RabbitMQ Covered in House – but is that always enough..?
You’ve got RabbitMQ Covered in House – but is that always enough..? Your engineers know RabbitMQ. They keep it running. They handle the day-to-day. From setting up exchanges and queues to monitoring throughout, they’ve got the basics covered. Probably even more than the basics. But… That usually gets you about 80% of the way. It’s…
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Beyond Broadcom: An Alternative for Supporting Open Source RabbitMQ
Best VMware Alternatives for RabbitMQ: Ditch Broadcom, Embrace Better Support For many businesses, Broadcom VMware pricing has reached a breaking point. Licensing changes, rising support costs, and complex bundling are forcing IT teams to re-evaluate what they really need — and what they’re paying for. If you’re using open source RabbitMQ, the good news is:…
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RabbitMQ vs SQS
RabbitMQ vs SQS: Key Differences Between the Two Message Brokers Modern applications are rarely monolithic; they rely on microservices, which need to communicate with each other. For simple applications, you can make do with direct communication, such as using REST APIs. However, this becomes less and less feasible as the system grows more complex. That’s…
