Practical Event-Driven Microservices Architecture: Building Sustainable and Highly Scalable Event-Driven Microservices

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H. F. Oliveira RochaPractical Event-Driven Microservices Architecturehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7468-2_6

6. Dealing with Concurrency and Out-of-Order Messages

Hugo Filipe Oliveira Rocha¹  

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Ermesinde, Portugal

 

This chapter covers:

• Why tackling concurrency in a monolithic application is different than tackling it in a distributed microservice architecture

• The impacts of concurrency in distributed event-driven services

• The differences between pessimistic and optimistic concurrency and when to use each

• How to apply pessimistic and optimistic concurrency strategies

• Using event versioning to handle out-of-order messages

• Applying end-to-end partitioning to ...