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ambicapter on June 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How do you cut a monolith in half?

Can you elucidate the differences between message-broker and request-response use cases in your eyes?

marcosdumay on June 30, 2017 [–]

In my eyes (where the GP makes perfect sense), a message broker is asynchronous, there's no implicit wait while your consumers work on our request. A request-response interface will stop the producer until the consumer is done.

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