5 Reasons Why Apache Kafka Needs a Distributed SQL Database
Modern enterprise applications must be super-elastic, adaptable, and running 24/7. However, traditional request-driven architectures entail a tight coupling of applications. For example, App 1 asks for some information from App 2 and waits. App 2 then sends the requested information to App 1. This sort of app-to-app coupling hinders development agility and blocks rapid scaling.
In event-driven architectures, applications publish events to a message broker asynchronously. They trust the broker to route the message to the right application,
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