Message Queues

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Message Queues

A Queue server runs independently and is tasked with routing events and messaging between clients.

*Any connected client can “publish” a message into the server. *Any connected client can “subscribe” to receive messages by type.

What is a message?

A message is a package of information, categorized by queue and event queue - Which general bucket does this message belong i.e. “Database Events”, “Filesystem Events”, “Network Events”, etc event - What event has happened i.e. “delete, add, update, connection lost, an error”, etc. payload - data associated with the event i.e. “record id, record information, error text”, etc