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Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches
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Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches

by Elton Stoneman
July 2020
Beginner content levelBeginner
464 pages
12h 39m
English
Manning Publications
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21 Asynchronous communication with a message queue

This is the final full chapter of the book, and it introduces a new way for the components of a system to communicate: sending and receiving messages using a queue. Message queues have been around for a very long time--they’re a way of decoupling components so instead of making a direct connection to communicate with each other, they send messages to the queue. The queue can deliver messages to one or many recipients, and that adds a lot of flexibility to your architecture.

In this chapter we’ll focus on two scenarios that are enabled when you add a message queue to your application: improving system performance and scalability, and adding new features with zero downtime. We’ll use two modern ...

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