Designing for resilience
Like all messaging middleware, Cloud Pub/Sub has the potential to add a large degree of resilience to communications between services. Whereas traditional HTTP communications require that the client be available to receive messages, services communicating over Cloud Pub/Sub may deliver messages to services that are currently down or are only intermittently active. Teams can maximize this benefit by adopting an event-driven architecture and designing systems for eventual consistency.
While Cloud Pub/Sub is a very reliable and performance-managed service, there are a few key considerations that must be taken into account when implementing solutions on Cloud Pub/Sub. Most of these considerations apply to message-oriented ...
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