The Role of Message Brokers in Microservice Architecture

The text discusses the role of a message broker in a microservice architecture, highlighting its importance in ensuring reliable message delivery and the drawbacks associated with its use. It proposes the idea of directly polling messages from the service's own log, eliminating the need for a message broker and potentially increasing the system's speed. However, this approach also comes with drawbacks, such as losing the advantages of a message broker and the absence of a suitable distributed database with appropriate log access. The author invites readers to share their thoughts on the matter.

• Message broker plays a crucial role in ensuring reliable message delivery in a microservice architecture
• The idea of directly polling messages from the service's own log as an alternative to using a message broker
• Potential drawbacks of this approach, such as losing the advantages of a message broker and the absence of a suitable distributed database with appropriate log access