Message Queues vs Event Brokers By David Boyne

Message Queues vs Event Brokers By David Boyne

Message Queues vs Event Brokers

Message Queue

Messages are put onto a queue and a consumer consumes the message and processes them. Messages are acknowledged as consumed and deleted afterwards. Messages are split between consumers which makes it hard to communicate system with events.

Example of this would be Amazon SQS. Publish messages to the queue and then listen to them, process them and they are removed from the queue.

Event Broker

Event brokers are a push system, they push these events downstream to consumers. Example of this would be Amazon EventBridge.

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