No RabbitMQ, uma connection é uma conexão TCP com o broker, enquanto um channel é uma conexão virtual leve dentro de uma connection. Usar channels corretamente (em vez de muitas connections) é importante para eficiência e uma best practice comum.
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)
