Do I need rabbitmq bindings for direct exchange?
Always. In fact, even though queues are strictly a consumer-side entity, they should be declared & bound to the direct exchange by the producer(s) at the time they create the exchange.
I have a rabbit mq server running, with one direct exchange which all my messages go through. The messages are routed to individual non-permanent queues (they may last a couple hours). I just started reading about queue bindings to exchanges and am a bit confused as to if I actually need to bind my queues to the exchange or not. I'm using pika basic_publish and consume functions so maybe this is implied? Not really sure just wanna understand a bit more.
Thanks