Transactional Messaging
In this book, we have transformed an application into an asynchronous one, which removes a lot of issues that arose from the tightly coupled and temporally bound nature of synchronous communication. Nearly all communication in the application is now made with a message brokered through NATS JetStream, providing loose coupling for the application components. However, despite all the advances we have made, we still face issues that all distributed systems suffer from.
In this chapter, we are going to discuss the following main topics:
- Identifying problems faced by distributed applications
- Exploring transactional boundaries
- Using an Inbox and Outbox for messages
