RPC Frameworks vs Message Queues

Developers should learn and use RPC frameworks when building distributed systems, microservices architectures, or applications requiring efficient communication between services over a network meets developers should learn and use message queues when building microservices, event-driven architectures, or applications requiring reliable, asynchronous processing, such as order processing in e-commerce or real-time notifications. Here's our take.

RPC Frameworks

Nice Pick

Developers should learn and use RPC frameworks when building distributed systems, microservices architectures, or applications requiring efficient communication between services over a network

Pros

• They are essential for scenarios like high-performance APIs, real-time data processing, or integrating heterogeneous systems, as they reduce boilerplate code, improve reliability, and support multiple programming languages and platforms
• Related to: grpc, apache-thrift

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

Message Queues

Developers should learn and use message queues when building microservices, event-driven architectures, or applications requiring reliable, asynchronous processing, such as order processing in e-commerce or real-time notifications

Pros

• They are essential for handling high-throughput scenarios, ensuring data consistency across services, and improving system resilience by isolating failures and enabling retry mechanisms
• Related to: apache-kafka, rabbitmq

Cons

• Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case

The Verdict

These tools serve different purposes. RPC Frameworks is a framework while Message Queues is a concept. We picked RPC Frameworks based on overall popularity, but your choice depends on what you're building.

The Bottom Line

RPC Frameworks wins

Based on overall popularity. RPC Frameworks is more widely used, but Message Queues excels in its own space.