11. Asynchronous Communication and Message Buses
Asynchronous communication between applications and services has been both the savior and the downfall of many platforms. And the vehicle (pun intended) most often used on this journey to paradise or inferno is the message bus. When implemented properly, asynchronous communication is absolutely a valuable rung in the ladder of near infinite scale. When implemented haphazardly, it merely hides the faults and blemishes of a product and is very much akin to putting “lipstick on a pig.”
As a rule, we favor asynchronous communication whenever possible. As we discuss in this chapter, this favorable treatment requires that one not only communicates in an asynchronous fashion but actually develops the ...
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