[rabbitmq-discuss] Installing broker on each node instead of client-only approach

[Matthias Radestock]

On 09/04/14 10:46, Nikolay Maximov wrote:
> I have a network of nodes which has some events to be saved in local
> store and queued for further processing in central back office. Please
> advice what is better to manage and costs less: to have local store and
> application which store message first and queue it then versus local
> rabbitmq broker to do the same thing with persistent queue. I am looking
> for best practice in this approach. Does someone has an exprience in
> such design where broker installed on each node?

A star-shaped RabbitMQ exchange federation 
(http://www.rabbitmq.com/federated-exchanges.html) - with local nodes 
serving as resilient store-and-forward buffers to a central broker - 
would work here and is quite a common configuration for exactly the 
scenario you are describing.

Matthias.