Flexible Messaging Patterns
Publish/subscribe for one-to-many distribution
Work queues for task distribution among workers
Request/reply for synchronous communication
Topic-based routing with wildcards
Header-based and direct routing options
Streaming queues for high-throughput scenarios
Enterprise Reliability
Guaranteed message delivery with acknowledgments
Persistent messaging for durability across restarts
Publisher confirms for delivery guarantees
Dead letter exchanges for failed message handling
TTL (Time-To-Live) for message expiration
Message priorities for processing order control
Distributed Architecture
Clustering for high availability
Federation for connecting brokers across networks
Shovel for message transfer between brokers
Quorum queues for data consistency
Mirror queues for redundancy
Highly available queues with automatic failover
Protocol Support
AMQP 0-9-1 as core protocol
MQTT for IoT and mobile applications
STOMP for web messaging
HTTP API for management and simple operations
WebSockets for browser-based applications
Stream protocol for high-throughput scenarios
Developer Experience
Client libraries for all major programming languages
Comprehensive documentation and tutorials
Management UI for monitoring and operations
Command-line tools for administration
Message tracing and debugging capabilities
Plugin ecosystem for extended functionality
Enterprise Security
TLS/SSL support for encrypted connections
Authentication with username/password or certificates
LDAP and OAuth 2.0 integration
Fine-grained authorization with virtual hosts
Per-vhost, per-user, and per-queue permissions
Connection and channel limits for resource protection
Operational Excellence
Comprehensive monitoring and metrics
Detailed logging and audit trails
Health checks and aliveness tests
Resource utilization statistics
Message rate tracking and alerting
HTTP API for automation and management
Scalability
Horizontal scaling with clusters
Vertical scaling with resource controls
Queue sharding for high-throughput
Lazy queues for handling large message backlogs
Connection and channel multiplexing
Flow control to manage overload conditions
Advanced Features
Message format validation
Message transformation plugins
Consistent hash exchange for balanced routing
Priority queues for message prioritization
Global fanout exchanges
Delayed message delivery capabilities
