NYTimes Architecture: No Head, No Master, No Single Point of Failure
▻http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/1/13/nytimes-architecture-no-head-no-master-no-single-point-of-fa.html
Michael Laing, a Systems Architect at NYTimes, gave this great decription of their use of RabbitMQ and their overall architecture on the RabbitMQ mailing list. The closing sentiment marks this as definitely an architecture to learn from:
Although it may seem complex, Fabrik has simple components and is mostly principles and plumbing. The key point to grasp is that there is no head, no master, no single point of failure. As I write this I can see components failing (not RabbitMQ), and we are fixing them so they are more reliable. But the system doesn’t fail, users can connect, and messages are delivered, regardless - all within design parameters.
Since it’s short, to the point, and I couldn’t say it better, I’ll just reproduce several original sources (...)