Top "Message-queue" questions

"Message queue" is a design pattern or software engineering component that defines discipline or API for communication between two or more interrelated processes or systems.

Messaging Confusion: Pub/Sub vs Multicast vs Fan Out

I've been evaluating messaging technologies for my company but I've become very confused by the conceptual differences between a few …

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How to selectively delete messages from an AMQP (RabbitMQ) queue?

I'd like to selectively delete messages from an AMQP queue without even reading them. The scenario is as follows: Sending …

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Getting number of messages in a RabbitMQ queue

We're using amqplib to publish/consume messages. I want to be able to read the number of messages on a …

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Disadvantages of SQL Server Service Broker

I have been doing r&d for the scope of SQL Server Service Broker to replace current messaging solution …

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Is there a performance difference between pooling connections or channels in rabbitmq?

I'm a newbie with Rabbitmq(and programming) so sorry in advance if this is obvious. I am creating a pool …

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What are all the differences between pipes and message queues?

What are all the differences between pipes and message queues? Please explain both from vxworks & unix perspectives. I think …

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Count number of messages in a JMS queue

What is the best way to go over a JMS queue and get all the messages in it? How can …

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Is Apache Kafka appropriate for use as an unordered task queue?

Kafka splits incoming messages up into partitions, according to the partition assigned by the producer. Messages from partitions then get …

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Kafka - How to commit offset after every message using High-Level consumer?

I'm using Kafka's high-level consumer. Because I'm using Kafka as a 'queue of transactions' for my application, I need to …

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Message Queues in Ruby on Rails

What message queues are people using for their Rails apps and what was the driving force behind the decision to …

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