Shared exchanged in RabbitMQ for performance and scalability

Sharded exchanges can be enabled by using the a plugin with rabbitmq. It is useful for distributing load across multiple queue for the same routing keys. Using sharded exchanges, you can shard messages across the cluster so that a single node doesn’t become overwhelmed.

These slides explain the setup in more detail.

PS: The deployment was load-tested using on rabbitmq clusters hosted on https://www.cloudamqp.com/ .