[rabbitmq-discuss] a possibility of AMQP/RabbitMQ extension?

Thu Nov 5 20:39:44 GMT 2009

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Igor Goryachev <igor at goryachev.org> wrote:
> Alexis Richardson <alexis.richardson at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 1. AMQP is 'programmable' so you can set up lots of messaging
>> applications by customer need.
>
> BTW, is it safe to implement i.e. custom methods or some other 'core'
> features?

I'm not sure what you mean - do you mean modifying the source of the
broker?  Or something else?

>> 2. You can write custom routers aka "exchanges" eg for content based routing
>>
>> 3. RabbitMQ supports plugins, see eg
>> http://www.lshift.net/blog/2009/10/26/http-routing-with-rabbitmq-and-trapeze
>
> Ok. I have already played a bit with rabbit's plugin API inside
> 'umbrella' development environment. It seems to be fine enough and
> really works for me.
>
>> AMQP has destructive reads ie. 'get message', whereas with a long term
>> store you want non-destructive reads.  So, currently I would say No to
>> that.  It's an interesting idea though.
>
> Well, then we will use real kv-database for this kind of task (at least
> for now) and continue using rabbitmq as our middleware service.
>
> Thank you very much for such a quick answer!

It's a pleasure.

A good thing to investigate is how to make RabbitMQ integrate with KV
stores, e.g. by pushing data into them.

alexis

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