Welcome back! Last time we talked about flow control and latency; today let’s talk about how different features affect the performance we see. Here are some simple scenarios. As before, they’re all variations on the theme of one publisher and one consumer publishing as fast as they can.

So today I would like to talk about some aspects of RabbitMQ’s performance. There are a huge number of variables that feed into the overall level of performance you can get from a RabbitMQ server, and today we’re going to try tweaking some of them and seeing what we can see.