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

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.