Fire and Forget vs Publish-Subscribe
Developers should use fire and forget when building systems that require high throughput, low latency, or loose coupling between components, such as in logging, monitoring, or event broadcasting scenarios meets developers should learn pub/sub when building systems that require loose coupling, scalability, and real-time updates, such as microservices, iot applications, or chat platforms. Here's our take.
Fire and Forget
Developers should use fire and forget when building systems that require high throughput, low latency, or loose coupling between components, such as in logging, monitoring, or event broadcasting scenarios
Fire and Forget
Nice PickDevelopers should use fire and forget when building systems that require high throughput, low latency, or loose coupling between components, such as in logging, monitoring, or event broadcasting scenarios
Pros
- +It is particularly useful in microservices architectures, where services can send notifications or updates without blocking on responses, enhancing scalability and fault tolerance
- +Related to: asynchronous-programming, message-queues
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Publish-Subscribe
Developers should learn Pub/Sub when building systems that require loose coupling, scalability, and real-time updates, such as microservices, IoT applications, or chat platforms
Pros
- +It's particularly useful for handling high volumes of events, enabling components to communicate asynchronously without direct dependencies, which improves fault tolerance and system resilience
- +Related to: message-queues, event-driven-architecture
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Fire and Forget if: You want it is particularly useful in microservices architectures, where services can send notifications or updates without blocking on responses, enhancing scalability and fault tolerance and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Publish-Subscribe if: You prioritize it's particularly useful for handling high volumes of events, enabling components to communicate asynchronously without direct dependencies, which improves fault tolerance and system resilience over what Fire and Forget offers.
Developers should use fire and forget when building systems that require high throughput, low latency, or loose coupling between components, such as in logging, monitoring, or event broadcasting scenarios
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