Chapter 15. Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic Load Balancing and Simple Queue Service
This chapter covers
- The reasons for decoupling a system
- Synchronous decoupling with load balancers to distribute requests
- Hiding your backend from users and message producers
- Asynchronous decoupling with message queues to buffer message peaks
Imagine that you want some advice from us about using AWS, and therefore we plan to meet in a cafe. To make this meeting successful, we must
- Be available at the same time
- Be at the same place
- Find each other at the cafe
The problem with our meeting is that it’s tightly coupled to a location. We live in Germany; you probably don’t. We can solve that issue by decoupling our meeting from the location. So we change ...
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