---
title: "Kafka or RabbitMQ: What to Use When"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/kafka-or-rabbitmq-what-to-use-when-mzuaa-qjt
source_url: https://towardsdev.com/kafka-or-rabbitmq-what-to-use-when-c0c991698216?source=rss----a648dc4ecb66---4
type: article
source: "Towards Dev"
published: 2022-06-27T14:25:22.742Z
updated: 2022-06-27T14:25:22.686Z
tags: ["kafka", "rabbitmq"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 26
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Kafka or RabbitMQ: What to Use When

**[Towards Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev)** · 7 min read · 26 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Distributed messaging is based on the concept of reliable message queuing. Messages are queued asynchronously between client applications and messaging system. RabbitMQ is the ordinary queue management protocol (mainly using FIFO). Kafka also act as almost same but more than that we consider it as a stream processing system.

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