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How can message queues improve scalability?

I have read in a DDD book that using message queues between communicating services can make the whole architecture more scalable, amazon's documentation mentions that queues provide granular ...
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Acceptable to use synchronous call to another microservice for time-sensitve state change?

Say there are two microservices (example is simplified) PickupRequestService: lists pick-up requests of passengers DriverService: drivers use to accept pickup requests On a completely decoupled ...
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Which message pattern should I use?

I'd like to develop a microservice architecture application that sends text messages from one communication provider to another and I'm just considering changing architecture would be best suited to ...
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When consuming an api, what is a good way to deal with their request limits?

My app is consuming a third party api. One of the requirements of this api is that my app cannot send more than 20 requests per second. Because of the nature of this app, and because my user base is ...
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How do I set up short-lived queues?

This scenario seems pretty ordinary, and yet, strangely, messaging systems (like Google Cloud PubSub and Task Queues and ActiveMQ) do not seem to support it -- they assume that topics/queues are long-...
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Does Akka obsolesce JMS/AMQP message brokers? [closed]

I spent the last week deep diving into the Akka docs and finally understand what actor systems are, and the problems that they solve. My understanding (and experience with) traditional JMS/AMQP ...
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Using message queue systems - forcing synchronous processing

I have a php process producer-a which places a job on RabbitMQ a - deferring processing to a third-party service. The 3rd party service completes processing a and places a response onto queue b. I ...
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