From the course: Microservices: Asynchronous Messaging
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Common technologies
From the course: Microservices: Asynchronous Messaging
Common technologies
- [Instructor] Throughout this course, I am going to be using some common terms and reference common components and I want to spend a quick moment to introduce them in case you are completely new to the concept of asynchronous messaging. The message broker is one of the core components required for asynchronous messaging in a microservices architectural style or any asynchronous messaging for that matter. It is the heart of the system and has central responsibility for all messaging operations. It provides a native mechanism to translate the message from one system into a message for another system. It can translate and transform the message as it comes in and prepare it for the consumer as needed. One of the big responsibilities, as you might imagine, includes the actual routing of the messages. Routing comes in many forms from simple point-to-point to inspection-based routing and fanning out of messages. The message…