There’s a lot of similarities between writing music and building websites. And, in my teens, that’s what I thought I’d be doing with my career; spending my lifetime in a dark room, playing with sounds and tinkering with adding layers upon layers of complimentary vibrations. But all that experience layering tracks on...

AMQP is not a trivially-straightforward protocol to understand, but it's necessary to get to grips with it to write effective software that uses the Qpid Proton AMQP library. Perhaps one of the simplest ways to understand AMQP is to use Proton's own packet-tracing features, as this article explains.