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Must be noted that service meshes bring some of the message bus advantages to the point-to-point architecture.
by ngrilly 7y ago
Must be noted that service meshes bring some of the message bus advantages to the point-to-point architecture.
- opportune 7y agoSomewhat, but it's a different use case. I'd say the main difference is that message buses are better for non-urgent, hopefully-soon-but-definitely-eventually workloads, while creating something like a message bus between services within a mesh will impose more urgency. Anecdotally I've heard that extremely chatty services (like something that approximates a message bus) are considered poor mesh design but I don't really understand why that is the case so long as the service architecture is kept clean
- ngrilly 7y agoI agree. The advantages I was referring to are things like adding monitoring, which is mentioned in the article. Interesting point about chatty services :-)