IMO the real solution is give me a better transport that RESTful HTTP! As many others have pointed out things like Kafka are built for these kinds of usecases.

IMO the real solution is give me a better transport that RESTful HTTP! As many others have pointed out things like Kafka are built for these kinds of usecases. So often I see people trying to design around the flaws in REST while ignoring that we've had some pretty good progress in the ensuing 20yrs.