04.1.5 · Skill in Software development
Asynchronous systems
Queues, background jobs and events for work that does not happen instantly.
Emails, imports, AI calls and payments often run asynchronously. Queues and background jobs make products more responsive and resilient, but add retries, ordering and failure states to think about. Users need feedback about work still in progress.
Resources
2- articleGo deeperWhat do you mean by "event-driven"? ↗Martin Fowler · 2017 · 9 min
Four different things people mean by event-driven, and the trade-offs of each.
- courseGo deeperThe system design primer ↗Donne Martin · free guide
A broad, free tour of scaling techniques: caching, replication, queues, load balancing and their trade-offs.
Tools
none yetTools for this topic are being researched.