Course Overview
This intensive 3-day, instructor-led course in RabbitMQ provides a deep dive into how to install, configure, and develop applications which leverage RabbitMQ messaging. The course begins with RabbitMQ installation and general configuration. It continues with developing messaging applications using the Java APIs, and delves into more advanced topics including clustering, high availability, performance, and security. Modules are accompanied by lab exercises that provide hands-on experience.
Who should attend
- Developers
- Architects
- Administrators
Prerequisites
Knowledge on Core Java or any enterprise programming language
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Install and configure RabbitMQ
- Activate and use plugins such as the web management console
- Implement messaging patterns and applications using the Java client
- Set up a cluster of RabbitMQ nodes
- Configure high availability appropriately
- Tune and optimize RabbitMQ for better performance
- Secure RabbitMQ
Course Content
Introduction to Messaging and AMQP
- Benefits of messaging and asynchronous systems
- Why JMS isn’t enough
- Introduction to AMQP
- RabbitMQ case studies
RabbitMQ Installation
- Product description and main capabilities
- Installation, directory structure, and configuration
- Durability with the Mnesia database
- Basic administration
- Web management console
- Multitenancy with virtual hosts
- Logging with the firehose tracer
Development and Integration
- Clients (Java, C#, Python, Ruby, etc.)
- Focus on the Java client
- Publishing and consuming messages
- Managing AMQP resources
- AMQP routing with exchanges and queues
- Higher level abstractions (Spring AMQP & Integration, Pika)
- Messaging patterns
Reliable Messaging Development
- Durable queues and exchanges
- Persistent messages
- AMQP and JMS transactions
- AMQP acknowledgments
- Dead lettering
- Multiple transactional resources
Clustering
- Scalable messaging architecture through clustering
- Creating a cluster
- Disk vs. RAM nodes
- Administration of a cluster
- Network partitions
High Availability
- Cluster node failures and consequences
- Mirrored queues
- Slave synchronization
- Client failover handling
Plugins
- RabbitMQ plugins introduction
- LDAP authentication
- Shovel
- Federation
- Shovel vs federation
- STOMP
Performance
- Impacts of configuration and client code options on performance
- Flow control
- Best practices
Security
- Virtual hosts, users, and access control
- Authentication
- Secured communication
Operations and Monitoring
- Disk, firewall, heartbeat tuning
- Monitoring
- Management API
- Support for third-party monitoring tools
Spring AMQP (Optional)
- Introduction to Spring
- Spring AMQP overview
- Spring’s AMQP template
- Configuring AMQP Resources using Spring
- Sending and receiving messages