Swarrot vs Symfony Messenger: a real-world comparison

We migrated a media microservices platform to Symfony 6 at the start of 2022. Twelve services, most of them consuming messages from RabbitMQ via Swarrot. Symfony 6 made Messenger more central than ever, and during the migration planning a developer asked the obvious question: why not switch at the same time? It ships with the framework. It has retry logic, native AMQP support, first-party documentation. Our setup looked artisanal by comparison. ...

January 26, 2022 · 5 min · Guillaume Delré