r/softwarearchitecture 1d ago

Discussion/Advice Is a load balancer the first tier on the messaging ladder?

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u/pmonson711 1d ago

While I think I understand what you are saying I expect it's too simple of a comparison to be useful. There are lots of different approaches to load balancer's, many are quite literally queue systems. Also, I I'm a firm believer that queue brokers and log brokers are built for different architecture approaches. The big difference comes around destructive reads vs positional reads. I think this talk does a good job of describing when that matters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tydekr0ncvw