Brett Cameron is Chief Application Services Officer at VMS Software Inc. and occasional RabbitMQ consultant and Erlang hacker. Previously Brett worked as a senior architect with HP’s Cloud and Enterprise Services groups working primarily in areas such as distributed systems, transaction processing, integration, and legacy application modernization leveraging open-source technologies.
Brett has worked extensively with Erlang and RabbitMQ for over 15 years, developing and supporting solutions using the technology set as well as delivering training and consulting, not to mention porting Erlang and RabbitMQ to several exotic operating systems.
After spending several years based in Europe, Brett is now living back home in Christchurch, New Zealand. In his copious spare time Brett enjoys listening to music, playing the guitar, and drinking beer.
One of the original motivations for AMQP was to address the middleware hell that had plagued organizations for decades due to the lack of open standards and the existence of proprietary and expensive message queuing products that did not interoperate, necessitating the development of adaptors and gateways that were costly to implement and maintain. However, while AMQP was originally conceived to help solve this existing problem, the protocol and products like RabbitMQ that evolved from it have largely been applied to solving new problems. This then raises the question as to whether RabbitMQ is equally applicable to the solution of traditional integration problems involving legacy software as it is to these newer problems.
This talk aims to consider the viability and benefits of replacing proprietary legacy solutions with RabbitMQ. Such modernization initiatives will be discussed in the context of specific use-cases, and solutions to common problems will be considered.
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