When to Go Async (And When to Resist the Urge)
Async patterns solve real problems -- bursty traffic, slow dependencies, decoupled teams. But the complexity tax is real. Lessons from building event-driven systems at Decloud.
Async patterns solve real problems -- bursty traffic, slow dependencies, decoupled teams. But the complexity tax is real. Lessons from building event-driven systems at Decloud.
Queues look simple on a whiteboard. Then you deploy them. Here are the messaging patterns I've learned the hard way across three startups, with Go code and real failure stories.