Having read an interesting comparison by Lindenlabs evaluating modern message broker systems like ActiveMQ, ApacheQpid and amongst others – RabbitMQ – I wanted to take a quick look at the last one and built a small application producing and consuming some sample messages.

If you need some lecture on getting started with RabbitMQ or the key concepts of messaging I strongly recommend reading this list of introductional articles from the RabbitMQ homepage.

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