[rabbitmq-discuss] Pub/Sub Guaranteed Delivery

Tue Sep 25 17:55:40 BST 2012

Thanks for your reply, Alexis. I guess what you said I can see in a non 
pub/sub (using fanout) scenario (persistent, durable, ack)... Am I 
understanding your response right? I've searched extensively for this 
answer, but I found there is no out of the box solution in RabbitMQ (and 
most of other queue solutions), so I'm trying to find good practices to 
achieve it -- pub/sub technique to "guarantee" messages are delivered to 
all subscribers. I'm trying to avoid the idea of building a custom 
lightweight middleware (although my diagram represents one in some sense).

I couldn't find the post you mentioned -- would you mind pointing it to me, 
please?

Thanks again.

Francisco

On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:10:47 UTC-3, Alexis Richardson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Francisco Aguiar Zanfranceschi 
> <zanfra... at gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > I'd like to say that's probably easier if I ask what's the best way to 
> > guarantee all subscribers receive all messages even when they go offline 
> > using RabbitMQ. I imagine all of us had that challenge or will have it 
> > sooner or later. I'm sorry to kind of bump this discussion. 
>
> You want to make sure that each consumer (subscribed client) can have 
> its messages held in a queue, while it is offline, so that it can get 
> the messages when it reconnects.  This is achievable using the pattern 
> I linked to in my previous post on this thread. 
>
> Then, you need to make sure that when it does connect, the messages 
> get to the consumer and only after you know that happened, is the 
> message deleted from the queue.  This is achievable by using 
> acknowledgement. 
>
> Does this answer your question? 
>
> It is also important to understand the failure scenarios clearly, 
> whenever words like "guarantee" are bandied about ;-) 
>
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