RabbitMQ at FreshBooksSheheryar Sewani (@sheysrebellion)

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RabbitMQ

• Asynchronous Messaging system

• Decouple your applications

• Easy to scale

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What the Queue?

• It’s all about queues

• Producers send messages to queues

• Consumers read messages from queues

• Messages can contain almost anything

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ConsumersServe both internal and External

Customers

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Consumers at FreshBooks• Event Logging

• Recurring Billing

• WebHooks

• Asynchronous Emails

• Fresh Receipts

• Metrics (MixPanel)

• SalesForce

• Lead Scoring

• FreshMap

• Targeted Email Campaigns

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Queues

Producer

Consumer

Consumer

Consumer

PHP Application

Sparkplug (Python) Consumers

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The Technology

• Sparkplug (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sparkplug/)

• Kombu (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/kombu)

• Queuetools (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/queuetools/)

• RabbitMQ (http://www.rabbitmq.com/)

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Thanks! Questions?

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