Messaging Patterns

The main advantages of the messaging services are reliability and the guarantee that information will be delivered to the consumer. Messaging services are often used for communication across heterogeneous systems, including services that have unstable connections to the internet, such as mobile devices. Messaging services are not new to the development world. Previously, they were used for legacy Windows application synchronization, via Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ). Nowadays, such services are involved in the building of Azure infrastructure in data centers.

Messaging protocols enable communication between services through a messaging broker, which guarantees the delivery and ordering of messages. The broker is responsible for persisting messages while services are temporarily unavailable. Consider other patterns for leveraging messaging services, including messaging orchestration, load balancing, and reactive programming. They will be discussed in detail...