RabbitMQ in Action

Preface

Writing this book has been like discovering RabbitMQ itself—encountering a problem that needed solving, but not knowing what the solution looked like. Until May 2010, we didn’t even know each other. We both had been active in the RabbitMQ community for the past two years, but we’d never actually bumped into each other. Then one day a conversation with Alexis Richardson (Rabbit’s CEO at the time) introduced Alvaro and me to each other, and made what you hold in your hands possible. What we had in common was a desire to write down in a single place all the knowledge we had acquired about RabbitMQ the hard way. Back in 2010, that knowledge was (and today still largely is) scattered across the internet in a smattering of blog articles and ...