- message queues are still widely used and more cloud hosted than self hosted so you will see them less in arch diagrams - event log (stateful multi-consumers)

- message queues are still widely used and more cloud hosted than self hosted so you will see them less in arch diagrams - event log (stateful multi-consumers) have taken a portion of the message queue workflow. this is more likely than moving them to redis/database message queuing works incredibly well for many problems. it’s as critical to most companies architectures as an application database