The first version of RabbitMQ has been released in 2007. Back in these days, the goal was to provide a complete open source implementation of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), aiming at modern messaging needs such as high availability, high performance, scalability and security.
Nowadays, RabbitMQ is one of the most popular message brokers and can be found in several domains.
This article lights up core concepts and compares it with ActiveMQ Artemis and AWS SQS.