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How fast is a Rabbit? Basic RabbitMQ Performance Benchmarks

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One of the greatest things about RabbitMQ is the community that surrounds it. With open source at its roots, people come together to share their code, their knowledge and their stories of how they’ve deployed it in their projects. At a recent meetup near Nice, France, database engineer Adina Mihailescu shared a presentation on choosing messaging systems. Supported by Murial Salvan’s benchmark comparing ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, HornetQ, Apollo, QPID, and ZeroMQ, they shared some interesting performance comparisons that we’d like to share with you.

In a single laptop benchmark, Salvan ran four different scenarios in order to obtain some insight on performance of the default setups for these messaging solutions. Each test had 1 process dedicated to enqueuing and another dedicated to dequeuing. The message volume and size ranged from 200 to 20,000 to 200,000 messages and 32 to 1024 to 32768 bytes. Both persistent and transient queues and messages were used. Continue reading →

Choosing Your Messaging Protocol: AMQP, MQTT, or STOMP

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One of the most common questions I’m asked to cover when I discuss software architecture topics is the difference between the various application messaging protocols that exist today—issues like how and why the protocols came about, and which one should be used in a particular application.

Their question is valid.

Today, application architects need to use a messaging broker to speed and scale their applications, particularly in the cloud. Even once you select your messaging middleware application, application developers need to then select the protocol. Understanding the subtle differences between them can be difficult.

Today, we will consider three of the most common and popular TCP/IP-based messaging protocols, and provide a quick summary on the advantages of each: AMQP, MQTT and STOMP. Before we go on, I should also point out that all three of these protocols are supported in RabbitMQ version 3.0—something we will use as an example and come back to later.

So, in alphabetical order…

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Messaging Architecture: Using RabbitMQ at the World’s 8th Largest Retailer

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Today, we are pleased to have a guest blogger from a VMware customer share with us their story of how RabbitMQ transformed their business by “solving some really interesting problems”. The following is sent courtesy of Pablo Molnar of MercadoLibre:

If you haven’t heard of MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI), we are the largest e-commerce ecosystem in Latin America. Our website offers a wide range of services to sellers and buyers throughout the region including marketplace, payments, advertising, and e-building solutions. Our products are present in over 14 countries, and the company is ranked as 8th largest online retailer in the world. We were also on Fortune’s list of the fastest growing companies in 2012, and we use RabbitMQ to solve some interesting problems.

About Our Technology Stack and How RabbitMQ Helps

In terms of technology infrastructure, MercadoLibre is fully committed to the open source development model. Most of our apps are primarily written in Grails, Groovy, and NodeJS,  but we don’t stick to any language or framework. We entrust tool selection responsibilities to the Software Engineers on each team. Almost all applications are hosted by our in-house cloud computing provisioning system and implemented via OpenStack with more than +7000 virtual instances at the moment. Also, we have successfully launched applications using emerging storage solutions like Redis and MongoDB. With an average of 20 million requests per minute and 4GB bandwidth per second, our traffic management layer is crucial and most of the routing rules job is done by Nginx proxy servers. Our labs department includes a huge Apache Hadoop cluster to perform complex analytical queries, and we are experimenting with real-time data processing using Apache Kafka and Storm.

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Announcing the Availability of vFabric Data Director 2.5, GemFire 7, EM4J 1.2, and More

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Application developers and data management teams continue to look for ways to modernize legacy apps, manage costs more effectively, build new apps on robust application platforms, and solve big data problems. These are some of the key reasons why vFabric is on the CIO (or CTO) agenda. With several new product releases in the vFabric Suite, VMware continues to provide a best-in-class application platform and help customers solve their top application development and data management problems.

vFabric Data Director 2.5

Database as a Service (DBaaS) helps companies virtualize data engines and automate management while getting a handle on the costs and compliance issues related to data sprawl. In the newest version of Data Director, several new data engines are supported (in addition to Oracle and Postgres) along with other new capabilities:

  • Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012
  • Support for Hadoop deployment, management, and monitoring across all major distributions through Project Serengeti
  • Enhanced automation of Oracle and SQL Server template creation
  • Broad support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Oracle Linux
  • Enhanced Oracle database ingestion, including ingestion to a point-in-time and more
  • Support for static IP database virtual machines (DBVMs)
  • Express set-up for development or experimentation

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.NET + RabbitMQ: Scales to 100s of Millions of Passenger Messages at 15below

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This week we are excited to have a guest post on vFabric RabbitMQ from Mike Hadlow, enterprise Microsoft.NET developer and architect with 15below.com. Mike covers:

  • Their Architecture Before RabbitMQ
  • Why they went with RabbitMQ
  • Their Infrastructure and Development Environment
  • How RabbitMQ fits in their Software Architecture

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In this post, I want to share our experiences of using RabbitMQ at 15below.

15below is based in Brighton, UK. We provide messaging and integration services for the travel industry. Our clients include Ryan Air, Qantas, JetBlue, Thomas Cook, and around 30 other airline and rail customers. 15below sends hundreds of millions of transactional notifications every year to its customer’s passengers over a wide range of channels including email, SMS, push, and voice.

RabbitMQ has helped us to significantly simplify and stabilise our software. It’s one of those solutions that you install, configure, and then really don’t have to worry about. In over a year of production, we’ve found it to be extremely stable without a single production issue. Continue reading →

Expert Interview: The Polyglot Rabbit: Examples of Multi-Protocol Queues in RabbitMQ

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Recently, we had the opportunity to speak with architect Brett Cameron about vFabric RabbitMQ.  A popular speaker, Brett is well known for his effort to port Erlang and RabbitMQ over to the “legacy” OpenVMS operating system platform (now owned by HP). With over 19 years in the software industry, Brett specializes in systems integration and large, distributed systems. Of course, he has spent a lot of time with OpenVMS – an OS with one of the more interesting histories in the software industry.

When we started chatting with Brett, he had recently discussed the concept of the Polyglot Rabbit with Alexis Richardson and written a great article titled, “The Polyglot Rabbit: Examples of Multi-Protocol Queues in RabbitMQ.” According to Brett, the main goal of this article is about the fact that you can publish messages into this environment via one protocol and consume via one or more other protocols (simultaneously if you want). “It’s a brilliant and a very powerful capability.” Brett felt that this capability was possibly not being promoted enough, and hopefully the article will go some way towards fixing this.

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2 Lessons on RabbitMQ from HighLoad – Extending the server with Plugins and HA Queues

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Recently, I presented at the HighLoad++ conference in Moscow Russia. Many of the developers I spoke with were interested in two pieces of information about RabbitMQ, and I wanted to share these with a broader audience:

  • Extending through Plugins
  • High Availability Queuing

If you haven’t heard of HighLoad++, the conference is pretty special since it focuses only on high traffic websites (mostly from Russia). The main point of the conference is to talk about new architectures and approaches for highly complex systems and covers things like:

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ROBLOX: RabbitMQ, Hybrid Clouds, and 1 Billion Page Views/Month

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Online video games have amazing software architectures, particularly when they support millions or billions of transactions.

One of the most interesting companies in this growing industry is ROBLOX.

If you haven’t heard of ROBLOX, they allow users develop their own games – creating players, 3D worlds, and objects from first-person shooters to genres like military and sci-fi. They are able to share these games with others, and, of course, play them. The ROBLOX application also has a built in advertising system, social network, and virtual economy with currencies. According to their website, they generate:

  • Over one billion page views, 29 million in-game hours, and 10 million unique visitors per month.
  • Players created 5.4 million games and spent over 250 million hours of game-play in 2011

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vFabric VMworld Sessions available On Demand

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For anyone that attended VMworld 2012, you can access content for all VMware sessions here.

If you did not attend, you can purchase a subscription to access the content online. Content from all previous years is free for all community members along with the 2012 General Session Keynotes.

For your convenience, we’ve provided a list and links to all the vFabric-related sessions below:
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Spring and RabbitMQ – Behind India’s 1.2 Billion Person Biometric Database

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Aadhaar was conceived as a way to provide a unique, online, portable identity so that every single resident of India can access and benefit from government and private services. The Aadhaar project has received coverage from all possible media – television, press, articles, debates, and the Internet. It is Screen shot 2012-07-30 at 5.53.12 PM seen as audacious use of technology, albeit for a social cause. UIDAI, the authority responsible for issuing Aadhaar numbers, has published white-papers, data, and newsletters on progress of the initiative.A common question to the UIDAI technology team in conferences, events and over coffee is – what technologies power this important nation-wide initiative? In this blog post, we wanted to give a sense of several significant technologies and approaches.

Fundamental Principles

While the deployment footprint of the systems has grown from half-a-dozen machines to a few thousand CPU cores processing millions of Aadhaar related transactions, the fundamental principles have remained the same:

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