Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Understanding Message Brokers |
| author | Jakub Korab |
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| ISBN-13 | 978-1-491-98153-5 |
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| date | 2017-Dec-14 |
This smalll booklet gives an introduction into what a message broker is and what it is not and how it works. It does an amazing job in explaining the concepts in an easy to understand way and simple language. There are two completely different types of Message Brokers explained: Apache ActiveMQ and Apache Kafka. Their workings are both explained, as well as their differences. There are various samples what to watch out for in your own application when involving the services of a message broker.
Korab not only gives a good introduction of Message Brokers, but, I believe, also a valuable guide for people who want to write applications interacting with a message broker, what to do or not to do, what to pay attention to, what you can expect from which type of message broker and what you can not expect from it. I'm sure, reading this booklet before coding your application is well worth your time because it can save you a lot of troubleshooting and debugging time by doing away with some misconceptions.
