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J. BartlettCloud Native Applications with Docker and Kuberneteshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8876-4_15

15. Enterprise Message Queues

Jonathan Bartlett1  
(1)
Tulsa, OK, USA
 
A message queue is a special service that handles message passing between services in your cluster. Using message queueing in your cloud architecture enables a whole host of benefits , including the following:

  • Increased resiliency to failures

  • Decreased coupling between services

  • Lower request latencies

  • Higher-level management of service-to-service data flows

Essentially, the foundational goal of a message queue is to enable reliable delivery to unreliable services. Directly calling a service ...

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