Nobody talks about message queues. That's the point.
Message queues haven't had a hype in over a decade. That's not a problem. It's proof they do their job.
Lovisa Johansson
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Lovisa Johansson
The RabbitMQ Delayed Message Exchange plugin: how it works, its limits, and alternatives
The Delayed Message Exchange plugin lets RabbitMQ hold a message for an arbitrary delay before routing it. This post covers how the plugin works, its limitations, alternatives, and how the...
Lois Soto López
Monitoring RabbitMQ in production: lessons from thousands of clusters
Which RabbitMQ metrics, logs and health checks matter in production, where to get them, and which alerts to set up, based on more than a decade of running thousands of...
Erica Weistrand
What I learned from building the same LavinMQ application with two Node.js clients
A developer insight from building the same banking application twice using amqplib and amqp-client.js — what stayed the same, what changed, and why separating broker responsibilities made migration much easier....
Hailay Gebremeskel
Long-running tasks in a message queue environment
AI agents can take minutes to reason, which may exceed a broker's consumer timeout. Three ways to handle long-running tasks: raise the timeout, ack early and track the job elsewhere,...
Magnus Landerblom
Node.js message queues, Part 1 - Build a banking application with LavinMQ
Learn how to build a reliable banking application with Node.js and LavinMQ. This tutorial walks through publishing transactions to a message broker and consuming them with a background worker using...
Hailay Gebremeskel
Node.js message queues, Part 2 - Handle failures with LavinMQ
Extend a Node.js LavinMQ application to handle temporary failures with retries, route permanent failures to a dead-letter queue, and prevent duplicate transaction processing with idempotent consumers.
Hailay Gebremeskel
Node.js message queues, Part 3 - Compare amqplib and amqp-client.js
Compare amqplib and the high-level amqp-client.js AMQPSession API for LavinMQ in Node.js, with a focus on connection recovery, consumer recovery, and where each client places the responsibility for reconnection logic....
Hailay Gebremeskel
Node.js message queues, Part 4 - Migrate from amqplib to amqp-client.js
A step-by-step guide to migrating a Node.js LavinMQ application from amqplib to the high-level amqp-client.js API, covering connection setup, publishing, consuming, acknowledgements, retries, dead-lettering, and connection recovery.
Hailay Gebremeskel
Outgrowing REST: How to scale your system with async messaging
When a REST-based system starts to struggle under load, offload work that doesn't require an immediate response to a message broker, such as RabbitMQ or LavinMQ. Start with a single...
Lovisa Johansson
Send RabbitMQ and LavinMQ logs to any OpenTelemetry (OTLP) endpoint
CloudAMQP now ships RabbitMQ and LavinMQ broker logs to any backend that accepts OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) over HTTP, such as SigNoz, Honeycomb, or your own OTLP gateway. This blog post...
Erica Weistrand
How to use Celery with LavinMQ
LavinMQ is a fast, lightweight broker for Celery tasks, speaking AMQP natively with simple setup. This short guide shows how to connect Celery to a LavinMQ instance and run your...
Lovisa Johansson