# Producer

Application that publishes information.

# Consumer

Application that subscribes to and processes information.

# FIFO

First In, First Out.

# AMQP

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol.

A network protocol.

A messaging protocol.

Enables conforming client applications to communicate with conforming messaging middleware brokers.

# AMQP entities

Queues, exchanges and bindings are collectively referred to as AMQP entities.