Messaging in the context of application architecture (grandly referred to as message oriented middleware on Wikipedia) is similar to messaging in the real world. If you want to ask your colleague to do something, you’ll send him a message of some sort. And if your app needs to ask another app to do something it can do the same, send a message to another app or process to run a command or send an e-mail, for example.

Note: This is a guest post by Jakub Stastny, a member of the RabbitMQ team. Further info can be found at the footer of this post. Read More