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RabbitMQ

Mature message broker, with queues and flexible routing.

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Message broker implementing AMQP, with queues, exchanges and acknowledgements, used to decouple services and distribute work.

When to use

For task queues and asynchronous communication between services with flexible routing.

When to avoid

For very high-volume event streaming with replay; Kafka is more suitable.

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