The Post and Publish Internet
The Post and Publish Internet.
“As pub/sub and asynchronous messaging get baked into the Web services stack, things are going to get a whole lot more interesting…Queued messaging, also known as store-and-forward, is part of the “loosely coupled” architecture now envisioned for Web services. Pub/sub is based on queues, but it’s not just about point-to-point communication. Events published to a topic may fan out to many recipients. And those events can be almost anything you can think of: a user clicking a button, a temperature rising above a limit, an appointment landing in a calendar.”