How to design message-driven and event-driven APIs
Asynchronous messaging is critical to creating a truly scalable system, where various services can communicate with each other easily, can scale up and down independently, and where one service failing won’t cause all the other services to fail. With the trend of microservices in full swing, this has become even more important. As Tim Bray from Amazon stated: “The proportion of services I work on where queues are absolutely necessary rounds to 100%.”
