# RustRabbit Roadmap
## 📋 Project Status
### ✅ Completed Features (v0.1.0)
- **Core Messaging**: Publisher/Consumer pattern implementation
- **Builder Pattern**: Fluent API for all configuration
- **Advanced Retry**: Exponential backoff with delayed message exchange
- **Health Monitoring**: Real-time connection status monitoring
- **Connection Management**: Connection pooling with failover
- **Error Handling**: Comprehensive error types and recovery
- **Documentation**: Complete API documentation with examples
- **Type Safety**: Strongly typed message handling with serde
### 🔧 Current Architecture
```
┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐
│ RustRabbit │ │ ConnectionMgr │ │ HealthChecker │
│ (Facade) │◄──►│ (Pool + Retry) │◄──►│ (Monitoring) │
└─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘
│ │
▼ ▼
┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐
│ Publisher │ │ Consumer │
│ (Send Messages) │ │ (Handle Messages)│
└─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘
│ │
▼ ▼
┌─────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐
│ DelayedRetry │ │ MessageHandler │
│ (x-delayed-msg) │ │ (Trait-based) │
└─────────────────┘ └─────────────────┘
```
---
## 🚀 Roadmap
### Phase 1: Stability & Performance (v0.2.0) - Q1 2025
**Goal**: Production-ready stability and performance optimization
#### 🎯 Priority Features
- [ ] **Integration Tests with Real RabbitMQ**
- Docker Compose setup for CI/CD
- Integration test suite with testcontainers
- Performance benchmarks and stress tests
- [ ] **Observability & Metrics**
- Prometheus metrics integration
- OpenTelemetry tracing support
- Structured logging with correlation IDs
- [ ] **Connection Resilience**
- Automatic reconnection with circuit breaker
- Connection failover to multiple brokers
- Graceful shutdown handling
#### 📊 Performance Optimizations
- [ ] **Message Batching**
- Batch publishing for high throughput
- Configurable batch size and timeout
- Memory-efficient batching strategies
- [ ] **Zero-Copy Optimizations**
- Direct byte buffer handling
- Minimal allocations in hot paths
- Custom serialization for performance-critical scenarios
#### 🔧 Developer Experience
- [ ] **CLI Tools**
- Message inspection utilities
- Queue management commands
- Development server with hot reload
- [ ] **IDE Integration**
- VS Code extension for debugging
- Message flow visualization
- Queue browser integration
### Phase 2: Advanced Messaging Patterns (v0.3.0) - Q2 2025
**Goal**: Enterprise-grade messaging patterns and features
#### 🏗️ Messaging Patterns
- [ ] **Request-Response Pattern**
- RPC-style messaging with timeouts
- Correlation ID management
- Response routing and multiplexing
- [ ] **Saga Pattern Support**
- Distributed transaction coordination
- Compensation action handling
- State machine integration
- [ ] **Event Sourcing**
- Event store integration
- Snapshot management
- Replay capabilities
#### 🔄 Advanced Retry & Recovery
- [ ] **Poison Message Handling**
- Dead letter queue analysis
- Message replay utilities
- Error classification system
- [ ] **Retry Strategies**
- Linear, exponential, custom backoff
- Per-message-type retry policies
- Retry attempt tracking and analytics
#### 🌐 Multi-Protocol Support
- [ ] **Protocol Adapters**
- MQTT bridge for IoT scenarios
- Apache Kafka compatibility layer
- Redis Streams integration
### Phase 3: Cloud-Native & Ecosystem (v0.4.0) - Q3 2025
**Goal**: Cloud-native deployment and ecosystem integration
#### ☁️ Cloud Integration
- [ ] **Kubernetes Operators**
- Custom resource definitions
- Auto-scaling based on queue depth
- Helm charts for easy deployment
- [ ] **Cloud Provider Integration**
- AWS SQS/SNS adapter
- Azure Service Bus integration
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub support
#### 🔐 Security & Compliance
- [ ] **Enhanced Security**
- TLS 1.3 support with certificate management
- SASL authentication mechanisms
- Message encryption at rest and in transit
- [ ] **Compliance Features**
- GDPR compliance utilities
- Audit logging and retention
- Message anonymization tools
#### 📈 Enterprise Features
- [ ] **Multi-Tenancy**
- Tenant isolation and resource quotas
- Per-tenant configuration
- Usage tracking and billing
- [ ] **Advanced Monitoring**
- Real-time dashboards
- Predictive analytics for queue health
- Automated alerting and remediation
### Phase 4: AI & Advanced Analytics (v0.5.0) - Q4 2025
**Goal**: AI-powered messaging optimization and analytics
#### 🤖 AI Integration
- [ ] **Smart Routing**
- ML-based message routing optimization
- Predictive load balancing
- Anomaly detection in message patterns
- [ ] **Auto-Tuning**
- Self-optimizing retry policies
- Dynamic connection pool sizing
- Performance bottleneck detection
#### 📊 Advanced Analytics
- [ ] **Message Flow Analysis**
- End-to-end message tracing
- Performance bottleneck identification
- Cost optimization recommendations
- [ ] **Predictive Scaling**
- Queue depth prediction
- Resource utilization forecasting
- Capacity planning automation
---
## 🎯 Long-term Vision
### Technical Excellence
- **Zero-Downtime**: Seamless upgrades and maintenance
- **Sub-millisecond Latency**: Optimized for high-frequency trading
- **Horizontal Scaling**: Handle millions of messages per second
- **Cross-Platform**: Support for WebAssembly and embedded systems
### Ecosystem Growth
- **Community-Driven**: Open source with strong community
- **Plugin Architecture**: Extensible with third-party integrations
- **Language Bindings**: Python, Node.js, and Go clients
- **Standard Compliance**: AMQP 1.0 and CloudEvents support
### Developer Experience
- **Zero Configuration**: Intelligent defaults for common scenarios
- **Live Debugging**: Real-time message flow visualization
- **Auto-Documentation**: Self-documenting message schemas
- **Testing Framework**: Built-in testing utilities for message flows
---
## 🤝 Contributing
### How to Get Involved
- **Feature Requests**: Submit ideas via GitHub Issues
- **Code Contributions**: Follow our contribution guidelines
- **Documentation**: Help improve docs and examples
- **Testing**: Add integration tests and benchmarks
### Development Process
1. **RFC Process**: Major features start with RFC discussion
2. **Prototyping**: Proof-of-concept implementation
3. **Community Review**: Public review and feedback
4. **Implementation**: Feature development and testing
5. **Documentation**: Update docs and examples
6. **Release**: Version bump and change log
### Priority Areas for Contributors
- Integration tests with various RabbitMQ configurations
- Performance benchmarks and optimization
- Additional message patterns and use cases
- Cloud provider integrations
- Documentation and examples
---
## 📅 Release Schedule
### Versioning Strategy
- **Major Releases**: Breaking changes, new architecture
- **Minor Releases**: New features, backward compatible
- **Patch Releases**: Bug fixes, security updates
### Release Cadence
- **Patch Releases**: Monthly (bug fixes)
- **Minor Releases**: Quarterly (new features)
- **Major Releases**: Yearly (breaking changes)
### Support Policy
- **Current Major**: Full support with new features
- **Previous Major**: Security and critical bug fixes
- **Legacy Versions**: Best effort support
---
## 📈 Success Metrics
### Technical Metrics
- **Performance**: Message throughput and latency
- **Reliability**: Uptime and error rates
- **Scalability**: Concurrent connections and queue depth
### Community Metrics
- **Adoption**: Downloads and GitHub stars
- **Engagement**: Issues, PRs, and discussions
- **Ecosystem**: Third-party plugins and integrations
### Business Metrics
- **Production Usage**: Companies using in production
- **Use Cases**: Diversity of application scenarios
- **Feedback**: User satisfaction and feature requests
---
*This roadmap is living document and will be updated based on community feedback and changing requirements.*