I RabbitMQ er en connection en TCP-tilkobling til broker-en, mens en channel er en lett virtuell tilkobling innenfor en connection. Å bruke channels på riktig måte (i stedet for mange connections) er viktig for effektivitet og en vanlig best practice.
Connections vs channels
CONNECTION → a TCP connection to the RabbitMQ broker:
→ relatively HEAVY (a real network connection, with overhead to establish/maintain)
CHANNEL → a lightweight, virtual connection MULTIPLEXED over a single TCP connection:
→ many channels share one connection → lightweight; most operations happen on channels
→ publishing, consuming, declaring queues → done via channels
→ one connection can have MANY channels (multiplexing reduces TCP overhead)
