Comment by rbranson

FWIW, I'd encourage you to still take a deeper look at AMQP, just because it includes features you may not know you need. While I can't pretend to know anything about your scaling challenges or the intimate details of how messaging is utilized, I can say that there are the lessons of deep experience with messaging baked into AMQP. You may have (or perhaps you already have) to implement some of these features in the future. I know that I gave AMQP the cold shoulder for a while, only to finally come around and find out it solved many of the frustrations we were facing.