queue Flashcards
(4 cards)
1
Q
queues
A
a means of distributing work across a system, to smooth out the load on the system
2
Q
features of queues
A
Message Ordering, Retry Mechanisms, Dead Letter Queues, Scaling with Partitions, Backpressure
3
Q
Common queueing technologies
A
Kafka and SQS.
4
Q
Be careful
A
If you have strong latency requirements (e.g. < 500ms), by adding a queue you’re nearly guaranteeing you’ll break that latency constraint.
