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Glen Mailer
March 27, 2014
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Message Queues for Everyone
An intro to AMQP for Node.js developers
Glen Mailer
March 27, 2014
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Transcript
Message queues for everyone An intro workshop to AMQP For
Node.js Developers
AMQP
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
0.9.1
None
Why?
Job Queue Event Stream Buffered RPC
Job Queue
Producer Consumer
Producer Consumer Producer
Producer Consumer Producer Consumer
Producer Consumer Producer Consumer
Exchange In Queue Out
Slow Operations Expensive Operations Brittle Operations
Producer c = create_channel q = c.queue("task") x = c.default_exchange
x.publish( "job1", "payload" ) Consumer c = create_channel q = c.queue("task") q.subscribe(worker) worker = fn(*message) { // do stuff }
Acknowledging Messages q = c.queue("task") q.subscribe(ack = TRUE, worker) worker
= fn(body, headers, info, m) { // do work m.acknowledge() }
Publishing Options Mandatory Will error if not queued Confirm Server
acknowledges receipt
Queue Declare Options Passive Don't create, get reference to existing
queue Durable Queue still exists after a broker restart
Event Stream
Producer Consumer Producer Consumer Consumer Consumer Producer
Messages Routing Key
Exchanges Fanout: all queues Direct: matching key Topic: key patterns
Exchange | Binding | Queue
Topic Exchange routing.key Exact match routing.*.key routing.#.key Wildcard matching routing.key
routing.a.key routing.b.key routing.a.b.key
(soft) Real-time updates User notifications Work distribution
Binding a Queue x = c.exchange("activity”) q = c.queue("alert") q.bind(x,
"balance.*") q.bind(x, "transfer.out") x.publish("balance.low") x.publish("transfer.in") x.publish("transfer.out")
Queue Declare Options Exclusive Only one consumer on this queue
at any time Auto Delete Queue is deleted after consumer disconnects
Simulator Demo
Buffered RPC
Producer Consumer
Smooth out Spikes Transparently scale Deferred Response
Message Header Reply To Correlation ID
Reply To reply = c.queue("abcdef") x.publish("request", headers: { replyTo: "abcdef"
}}) reply.subscribe(handleResponse)
Correlation ID x.publish("request1", headers: { replyTo: "abcdef", correlationId: "request1" })
x.publish("request2", headers: { replyTo: "abcdef", correlationId: "request2" })
Admin Interface Demo
Why not just use … ?
Redis pub/sub (Resque etc)
Beanstalkd
JMS Stomp
MQTT
ØMQ
Node.js Quickstart
npm install amqp
var amqp = require('amqp') var conn = amqp.createConnection( {
url: 'amqp://un:pw@host:5672/vhost' }, { reconnect: false } ) conn.on('ready', function() { // Do stuff })
var opts = { noDeclare: true } conn.queue(name, opts, function(q)
{ q.subscribe( { ack: true, prefetch: 1 }, onMessage ) }) function onMessage(body, meta, info, msg) { // do some stuff msg.acknowledge() }
var opts = { type: 'topic', noDeclare: true } conn.exchange(name,
opts, function(x) { x.publish('key', 'body', { contentType: 'text/json' }) })
Questions?
Lets go! http://amqp-nodejs.herokuapp.com https://addons.heroku.com/marketplace/rabbitmq-bigwig
@glenathan