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Building Microservices with Go
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Building Microservices with Go

by Nic Jackson
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
10h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Event processing with at least once delivery

Event processing is a model which allows you to decouple your microservices by using a message queue. Rather than connect directly to a service which may or may not be at a known location, you broadcast and listen to events which exist on a queue, such as Redis, Amazon SQS, NATS.io, Rabbit, Kafka, and a whole host of other sources.

To use our example of sending a welcome e-mail, instead of making a direct call to the downstream service using its REST or RPC interface, we would add an event to a queue containing all the details that the recipient would need to process this message.

Our message may look like:

{   "id": "ABCDERE2342323SDSD",   "queue" "registration.welcome_email",  "dispatch_date": ...
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