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CloudAMQP
Company blog · cloudamqp.com/blogsystemsprogramming
CloudAMQP is the company blog at cloudamqp.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2016, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “13 common RabbitMQ mistakes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link CloudAMQP's blog for RabbitMQ background: customer case studies, database-as-queue debates, Celery connection settings, Redis/Kafka comparisons and benchmarks. One commenter calls a post a good reference.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Managed RabbitMQ servers hosted in the cloud. Decouple your applications with the speed of CloudAMQP, a highly available message queuing service.
Most-linked posts?
- 13 common RabbitMQ mistakes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-15
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-05
- RabbitMQ 3.8 Feature Focus – Single Active Consumer2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-29
- From a monolith architecture to microservices and event-based communication2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-23
What Hacker News says?
While an official list of customers can't be published, you can get some ideas from the speakers at the last two RabbitMQ summits - https://rabbitmqsummit.com/ Also, see the following articles: Laika - https://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2019/12/16/laika-gets-creative... Bloomberg - https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/rabbitmq/keynote-growing-a-... Goldman Sachs - https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/rabbitmq/keynote-scaling-ra.…
Comment linking /blog/2019-01-18-softonic-userstory-rabbitmq-eventbased-communication.html
on “An introduction to RabbitMQ”Submitted Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies as a story · 16 points
HN discussionStrong disagree on using a database as a message queue. This article[0] covers many of the reasons why. Summary: additional application complexity and doesn't scale well with workers. 0. https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/why-is-a-database-not-the-rig... EDIT>> I am not suggesting people build their own rabbitmq infrastructure. Use a cloud service. The article is informational only.
Comment linking /blog/why-is-a-database-not-the-right-tool-for-a-queue-based-system.html
on “Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)”Submitted A microservice architecture built upon RabbitMQ as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI have heard it said many times that it is a bad idea to implement message queues over a relational SQL database. e.g. "Databases suck for Messaging" https://www.rabbitmq.com/resources/RabbitMQ_Oxford_Geek_Nigh... http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/04/database-as-queue-ant... https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/2015-11-23-why-is-a-database-... https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3514... I wonder if t…
Comment linking /blog/2015-11-23-why-is-a-database-not-the-right-tool-for-a-queue-based-system.html
on “Message DB: Event Store and Message Store for PostgreSQL”Submitted Diagnostic Tool for RabbitMQ as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThere has been quite a lot of IoT automation / rule engine stuff done in NoFlo in the last couple of companies I’ve worked at, but obviously I can’t really go into specifics there. Then there was this startup way back when: https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/2017-05-31-work-queues-in-rab... https://librearts.org/2014/10/artificial-intelligence-design... On the front-end side, Flowhub uses NoFlo for state management, a b…
Comment linking /blog/2017-05-31-work-queues-in-rabbitmq-for-resource-intensive-tasks.html
on “Flow-Based Programming”Submitted RabbitMQ 3.8 Feature Focus – Single Active Consumer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionRIP https://www.cloudamqp.com/
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on “Amazon Launches New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service”Submitted RabbitMQ 3.8 Feature Focus – Single Active Consumer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes CloudAMQP is such a service. It includes a free plan. If you are going to use Celery and CloudAMQP, I'd advice using the recommended settings[1], otherwise Celery will produce a large number of connections + messages. (Disclaimer: I work with CloudAMQP) [1] https://www.cloudamqp.com/docs/celery.html
Comment linking /docs/celery.html
on “Celery, non-blocking code and quest against coroutines”Submitted Quorum Queues, in upcoming RabbitMQ 3.8, do you think you will use them? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion+1. I also think that their problem was more celery-related that rabbitmq related, but that's just a guess. We also evaluated kafka vs. rabbitmq, and chose rabbitmq. For people hitting performance degradation with rabbitmq this is a good reference [0] RabbitMQ should be used as-is without a middleman as much as possible, to make the best possible use of all of its concepts. [0] https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/2018-01…
Comment linking /blog/2018-01-19-part4-rabbitmq-13-common-errors.html
on “Eliminating Task Processing Outages by Replacing RabbitMQ with Apache Kafka”Submitted 13 common RabbitMQ mistakes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere issues if you run with mirroring. It's advised that you use quorum queues here: https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/reasons-you-should-switch-to-... However many people using Rabbit are using it with Celery which doesn't work with quorum queues - so people learn to expect performance issues.
Comment linking /blog/reasons-you-should-switch-to-quorum-queues.html
on “Redis vs. Kafka vs. RabbitMQ”Submitted Annual RabbitMQ report 2022 by CloudAMQP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCloudAMQP [1] might be what you're looking for. [1] https://www.cloudamqp.com/
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on “Ask HN: What's a global, low throughput, low latency message bus service?”Submitted Current RabbitMQ version distribution on CloudAMQP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInteresting, I wonder how this compares with cloudamqp[1] or the other IBM company whose name I can't remember that does something almost similar 1. https://www.cloudamqp.com
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on “Show HN: Amqphosting, No rate limits RabbitMQ as a service”Submitted Meet Parkster – Breaking down a monolithic system into microservices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAppears 10^3 times latency for 1 KiB message according to here but better at lower 16 B size https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/lavinmq-benchmarks.html Seems situation dependent.
Comment linking /blog/lavinmq-benchmarks.html
on “A Modern High-Performance Open Source Message Queuing System”Submitted Message queues vs. HTTPS in microservices, part 1: A more decoupled architecture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From a monolith architecture to microservices and event-based communication as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Part 1: RabbitMQ Best Practice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Handling resource-intensive tasks with work queues in RabbitMQ as a story · 1 points
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