What is MassTransit?
It is free software/open-source .NET-based Enterprise Service Bus software that helps Microsoft developers route messages over MSMQ, RabbitMQ, TIBCO and ActiveMQ service busses, with native support for MSMQ and RabbitMQ.
MassTransit is a tool in the Message Queue category of a tech stack.
MassTransit is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to MassTransit's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses MassTransit?
Companies
15 companies reportedly use MassTransit in their tech stacks, including Alibaba Travels, Logiwa, and pracuj.pl.
Developers
72 developers on StackShare have stated that they use MassTransit.
MassTransit Integrations
PHP, .NET, Datadog, Tutum, and Server Density are some of the popular tools that integrate with MassTransit. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with MassTransit.
MassTransit's Features
- Message-based communication
- Reliable
- Scalable
MassTransit Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to MassTransit?
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
NServiceBus
Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.
Azure Service Bus
It is a cloud messaging system for connecting apps and devices across public and private clouds. You can depend on it when you need highly-reliable cloud messaging service between applications and services, even when one or more is offline.
Kafka
Kafka is a distributed, partitioned, replicated commit log service. It provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with a unique design.
Hangfire
It is an open-source framework that helps you to create, process and manage your background jobs, i.e. operations you don't want to put in your request processing pipeline. It supports all kind of background tasks – short-running and long-running, CPU intensive and I/O intensive, one shot and recurrent.