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The upcoming Enqueue release will contain a feature that allows to run Symfony commands asynchronously. You can use it right now, just make sure the package is in place and you have EnqueueBundle properly configured plus one of supported MQ transports installed. The package could be used…

Up till now, Enqueue consumption performance from multiple queues within one process has been poor. QueueConsumer used round robin algorithm to fetch messages from queues in combination with the blocking receive method.

MongoDB is a document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need. In addition, it is exceptionally developer friendly. No hassle with table creation, column definitions, data types. The…

In this article I am going to show you how to implement a robust retry topology using node.js and amqplib npm library. The solution is inspired by RabbitMqDlxDelayStrategy.php strategy from Enqueue library.

• InfluxDB is open source time series database designed to handle high write and query loads.

The Queue Interop project started in the summer of 2016, almost two years ago. Since then It has been well-tried by many developers. A lot of companies use it in production.

It is time to settle a date of a stable release and possibly some intermediate steps…

PHP AMQP clients. Benchmark them all!

Increasing popularity of AMQP interop prompted a wave of questions regarding which adapter is…

Great News! Queue Interop is one step closer to PHP world domination. (:

The article describes the neat and elegant solution for having several Docker containers accessible on the same port (i.e 80) and reachable via its virtual host names.

In Enqueue project we do functional testing to make sure MQ transports work as expected. For that we need real brokers, such as Amazon SQS or Kafka. Sometimes tests fail not because of the bug at our side but because of the way a broker works.

Everybody who uses AMQP in PHP must be aware of php-amqplib. It is very popular and in addition, it is used on RabbitMQ offsite in its tutorials. These tutorials cover the basics of creating messaging applications using RabbitMQ.

RabbitMQ does not support delayed messaging from out of the box. However, at the end of the “RabbitMQ redelivery pitfalls” post, we presented code snippets that do delaying either by using a mix of ttl and dead letter exchanges or by using the delay plugin.

Swiftmailer is one of the most popular mailer library in PHP world. In general the library works pretty good though there is a case that could be improved and it is: email queueing. The email queuing come in handy in such situations:

This post describes steps you need to perform to migrate from OldSoundRabbitMqBundle (“the old sound”) to EnqueueBundle (“the enqueue”). This will be a smooth transition without breaking changes at all. Even…

It is a short story to bring you up to speed with what we’ve done recently on Enqueue project. The async event dispatcher feature has been merged.

As you might already guess, it allows you to dispatch events asynchronously. An event is converted to a…

With the rise of microservices, it becomes crucial to connect applications properly and a Message Bus EIP helps here a lot.

It is a pattern that enables separate applications to work together, but in a decoupled fashion such that…

The Getting Started with RabbitMQ in Symfony post was about image processing in Symfony though it was a bit theoretical and did not shed a light on how to actually process images. In this post I’ll show you how to process images in background in…

All examples are based on Enqueue PHP Messaging library

The previous blog post told you how to get started with RabbitMQ in PHP. This post covers the same image processing topic and dedicated to Symfony developers.

RabbitMQ is the message broker. We can use that to schedule background tasks or send events asynchronously. There are good writeups on the benefits it gives to you: Top 10 Uses For A Message Queue, Main features and benefits of message…