What are channels in RabbitMQ?

A Channel is the application session that is opened for each piece of your app to communicate with the RabbitMQ broker . It operates over a single connection, and represents a session with the broker. As it represents a logical part of application logic, each channel usually exists on its own thread.

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What is Django channels used for?

Django Channels facilitates support of WebSockets in Django in a manner similar to traditional HTTP views . It wraps Django’s native asynchronous view support, allowing Django projects to handle not only HTTP, but also protocols that require long-running connections, such as WebSockets, MQTT, chatbots, etc.

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Why Django channels need Redis?

The primary purpose of redis in django-channel_layers is to store the necessary information required for different instances of consumers to communicate with one another . For example, in the tutorial section of channels documentation, it is clear that Redis is used as a storage layer for channel names and group names.

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