April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
14h 34m
English
What if containers can talk to each other without knowing their IP addresses and ports or even service IP addresses or network names? What if most of the communication can be asynchronous and decoupled? In many cases, systems can be composed of loosely coupled components that are not only unaware of the identities of other components, but they are unaware that other components even exist. Queues facilitate such loosely coupled systems. Components (containers) listen to messages from the queue, respond to messages, perform their jobs, and post messages to the queue about progress, completion status, and errors. Queues have many benefits:
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