[rabbitmq-discuss] Issue with RabbitMQ 2-way federation setup

[Simon MacMullen]

On 07/02/2014 3:29PM, Rahul wrote:
> So what I understand from the description is, federation does not
> simulate the mirrored queues behavior.

That's correct.

Indeed, it's hard to see how it could; you'd need to coordinate to make 
sure that each message was only consumed from one node of the 
federation, so you need Consistency, so you sacrifice Partition 
tolerance and before you know it you're back at clustering.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, Pivotal