Async message-oriented systems vs. REST for inter-microservice communications
&gt; Back-pressure (e.g. slowing down the entry-points) can easily be introduced if queues becomes too large.<p>...which presumably includes load-shedding to stop misbehaving components from overloading the queues; at which point, unless you want clients to just lose track of the things they wanted done when they get a &quot;we&#x27;re too busy to handle this right now&quot; response, you&#x27;ve essentially circled back around to clients having to use a client with REST-like &quot;synchronous&#x2F;blocking requests with retry&#x2F;backpressure&quot; semantics — just where the requests that are being synchronously-blocked on are &quot;register this as a work-item and give me an ID to check on its status&quot; rather than &quot;do this entire job and tell me the result.&quot;<p>And if you&#x27;re doing that, why force the client to think in terms of async messaging at all? Just let them do REST, and hide the queue under the API layer of the receiver.