Using RabbitMQ with nServiceBus (for C#) vs using Amazon SQS

Question

If I understand correctly, I can use nServiceBus as a "framework" and / or a wrapper around RabbitMQ My preference of RabbitMQ is being able to use it on linux machines

Background

I have an application that enables people to upload images. These images will require thumbnails.

Our application is predominantly asp.net (c#)

My idea is to do the following:

• upload the full size images to S3 (or whatever storage service)
• create a "message" that has input storage key, output storage key, width, height - and add to queue.
• there will be a linux server acting as a worker (windows licensing constraint) that reads the messages from the queue, and does the actual resizing
• new image will be placed on S3, defined by output key of received message

I could use Amazon SQS i suppose, but I wanted to explore the possibility of nServiceBus with RabbitMQ for transport.

Does anyone have any further info on doing this? I saw this on GitHub: http://github.com/machine/machine.mta/tree/master/Source/NServiceBus.Unicast.Transport.RabbitMQ but was wondering how this could be used?

What would your preferred way of approaching this be?

Catoptrics

Answer 1

Alex, I use SQS very often, but there are other services that could be useful for you. You may Google 'Cloud Message Queue' and find plenty of those.

Auston

Answer 2

<shameless_plug> You might want to look at EasyNetQ too. It's written specifically as a .NET API for RabbitMQ. It works fine on Mono too.

Unmuzzle

Please note you should be careful about presenting your own project as an answer if the user has not explicitly asked for recommendations (and such questions end up getting closed/deleted nowadays when they are found, anyway). In this case, the OP was asking about how to use a specific API he had already found. – Barbarism

Answer 3

May be this project can give your idea where to look further

Ammoniac