Why Continuing With RabbitMQ Is a Strong Strategic Choice

RabbitMQ remains one of the most widely adopted and trusted open-source message brokers in the world. As the technology landscape shifts, especially with recent changes in Broadcom/VMware licensing, many organisations are reassessing their messaging platforms.

This document outlines why RabbitMQ continues to be a resilient, future-proof and cost-effective option for enterprise architectures.

RabbitMQ is a proven, reliable foundation for enterprise messaging

For over a decade, RabbitMQ has supported mission-critical applications across sectors including finance, logistics, healthcare, retail, and SaaS. Organisations continue to rely on RabbitMQ for:

• Consistent and guaranteed message delivery
• Flexible routing and message patterns
• Cross-language and cross-platform integration
• Strong operational stability
• Large community and open-source transparency

RabbitMQ offers the reliability and predictability that enterprise systems depend on.

Existing or older RabbitMQ clusters remain fully viable

Many organisations operate RabbitMQ clusters that have been in place for years. These environments remain stable and supportable, and there is no forced need to replace them.

With the right approach, organisations can:

• Extend the life of existing clusters
• Optimise performance and reliability
• Avoid unnecessary, high-risk migrations
• Modernise components safely over time

RabbitMQ supports robust disaster recovery and high availability

As enterprises prioritise resilience, RabbitMQ offers proven patterns for:

• Multi-site failover
• Active/passive disaster recovery
• Data replication across environments
• Controlled, predictable recovery procedures

With the right tooling – such as Seventh State’s exclusive DRS plugin – RabbitMQ can achieve strong uptime guarantees and protect critical workflows.

RabbitMQ compares favourably to many modern alternatives

When organisations consider alternatives, RabbitMQ frequently remains the best choice for traditional messaging, workflow coordination, and multi-system integration.

Kafka vs RabbitMQ

Kafka is excellent for very high-throughput data streaming. RabbitMQ is superior for transactional workflows, event-driven systems, and complex routing.

ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ’s simplicity, operational tooling, and extensibility typically offer advantages over JMS-centric brokers.

SQS vs RabbitMQ

While SQS is a managed service, it lacks many of the routing and control capabilities that make RabbitMQ effective for enterprise integration.

Specialist support ensures long-term reliability and confidence

RabbitMQ is straightforward for day-to-day use, but enterprise clusters occasionally face complex challenges such as:

• Scaling for increased workloads
• Handling message backlogs
• Managing network partitions
• Implementing HA and DR correctly
• Planning safe, low-risk upgrades

Partnering with Seventh State ensures organisations have expert guidance when it matters-without needing major architectural changes or expensive vendor lock-in.

Summary

Continuing to use RabbitMQ is a strong, future-aligned decision because:

• It is stable, well-understood, and widely adopted.
• It is not tied to VMware and can run on modern infrastructure choices.
• Existing deployments can be maintained and improved rather than replaced.
• It offers strong resilience, scalability and flexibility.
• Competing technologies often solve different problems-or introduce substantial migration effort.
• Specialist support can extend RabbitMQ’s value for years to come.