July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
10h 54m
English
If there is a choice between processing a message synchronously or asynchronously, then I would always choose synchronously because it always makes the application simpler with fewer components parts, the code is easier to understand, tests are easier to write, and the system is easier to debug.
Asynchronous processing should be a design decision that is driven by need, be that the requirement for decoupling, scale, batch processing, or time-based processing. Event-driven systems give an ability to scale at much higher levels than monolithic systems, and the reason for that is that because of the loose coupling, the code scales horizontally with both greater granularity and greater ...
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