Chapter 11. Scaling through messaging
This chapter covers
- A quick overview of messaging
- Using RabbitMQ with Clojure
- A framework for distributed parallel programming
Messaging has a place in system architecture for many reasons. The most obvious is to communicate between different applications or various subsystems of a single application. Using a messaging system in this manner allows for loose coupling and flexibility: message structure can be changed as needed, or messages can be transformed in the middle as required. There are many design patterns for integrating applications using messaging in this manner.
Another use of messaging is to introduce asynchronous processing into applications. Instead of handling complete requests in ...
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