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Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition
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Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition

by Andreas Wittig, Michael Wittig
May 2023
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
16h 16m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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14 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 café. To make this meeting successful, we must:

  • Be available at the same time

  • Be at the same place

  • Find each other at the café

The problem with making our meeting happing is that it’s tightly coupled to a location. We live in Germany; you probably don’t. We can solve that problem by decoupling our meeting from the location. ...

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