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RabbitMQ and relationship between channel and connection

November 24, 2022 by Tarik

A Connection represents a real TCP connection to the message broker, whereas a Channel is a virtual connection (AMQP connection) inside it. This way you can use as many (virtual) connections as you want inside your application without overloading the broker with TCP connections. You can use one Channel for everything. However, if you have … Read more

RabbitMQ / AMQP: single queue, multiple consumers for same message?

July 24, 2022 by Tarik

Can I have each consumer receive the same messages? Ie, both consumers get message 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6? What is this called in AMQP/RabbitMQ speak? How is it normally configured? No, not if the consumers are on the same queue. From RabbitMQ’s AMQP Concepts guide: it is important to understand that, in AMQP … Read more