This article introduces the AMQP client library for Erlang, which is currently available as a contribution to the RabbitMQ server. This library will be of interest to those wanting to: Use Erlang to connect to an AMQP server; Deploy Erlang modules directly into RabbitMQ and expose them via AMQP. This is the first of a series of articles describing the Erlang AMQP client. This article assumes tha