EasyNetQ in Africa

Anthony Moloney got in touch with me recently. He’s using EasyNetQ, my simple .NET API for RabbitMQ, with his team in Kenya. Here’s an email he sent me:

Hi Mike,
Further to the brief twitter exchange today about using EasyNetQ on our Kenyan project. We started using EasyNetQ back in early November and I kept meaning to drop you a line to thank you for all your good work.
Virtual City are based in Nairobi and supply mobile solutions to the supply chain and agribusiness industry in Africa. African solutions for African problems. I got involved with them about 2 years ago to help them improve the quality of their products and I have been working on and off with them since then. Its been a bit of a journey we are getting there.
We have a number of client applications including android and wpf working in an online/offline mode over mobile networks. We need to process large amounts of incoming commands from these applications. These commands are also routed via the server to other client apps.
The application had originally used MVC and SQL server to synchronously process and store the commands but we were running into severe performance problems. We looked at various MQ solutions and decided to use RabbitMQ, WebApi & Mongo to improve processing throughput. While researching a .Net API for RabbitMQ I noticed that you had created the EasyNetQ API.
EasyNetQ greatly simplifies interacting with RabbitMQ and providing your needs are not too complicated you really don't need to know too much about the guts of RabbitMQ. We replaced the existing server setup in about a week. The use of RabbitMQ has greatly increased the scalability of the product and allows us to either scale up or scale out.
We are also using the EasyNetQ management API for monitoring queue activity on our customer services dashboard.
Kind Regards
Anthony Moloney

One of the great rewards of running an open source project is hearing about the fascinating ways that it’s used around the world. I really like that it’s an ‘African solution for African problems’ and built by a Kenyan development team. It’s also interesting that they’ve used OSS projects like RabbitMQ and Mongo alongside .NET. It reminds me of the Stack Overflow architecture, a .NET core surrounded by OSS infrastructure.