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# Hands-on AMQP with LavinMQ: Decoupling Services with Message Queues


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 10:30–12:30 (120 min)
- **Room:** Room M4 (40 Seats)
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Description

Most services still talk to each other over HTTP, blocking on each call and tightly coupling availability, deployment, and scaling. Message queueing offers a different model: services publish events, brokers route them, and consumers process at their own pace. 

In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn AMQP, one of the most widely deployed messaging protocols, by building real publishers and consumers against LavinMQ, an open-source message broker. We'll start with the fundamentals (connections, channels, queues) and work our way through the AMQP exchange types: direct, fanout, topic, and headers. Along the way, we'll cover routing patterns, message TTLs, queue arguments, and policies.

## Speaker

### [Erica Weistrand](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@erica-weistrand)

Developer Lead at CloudAMQP


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- [Event-Driven Microservices: Patterns and Practices for Production-Ready Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/937-event-driven) — Lutz Huehnken
- [From CPUs to QPUs: A Software Engineer’s Guide to Quantum Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/988-from-cpus-to-qpus-a) — André Alves
- [What If We've Been Scaling Stream Processing Wrong All Along?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1313-what-if-we-ve-been) — Hartmut Armbruster
- [Build a Multi-Channel AI Agent](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1354-build-a-multi) — Anni Chen