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2019-11-16

Spring Cloud Stream: The Future of Distributed Messaging and Stream Processing

Java

Spring Cloud Stream is a framework for building highly scalable event-driven microservices connected with shared messaging systems.

The framework provides a flexible programming model built on already established and familiar Spring idioms and best practices, including support for persistent pub/sub semantics, consumer groups, and stateful partitions.

Binder Implementations

Spring Cloud Stream supports a variety of binder implementations, and the following table includes the link to the GitHub projects.

The core building blocks of Spring Cloud Stream are:

  • Destination Binders: Components responsible for providing integration with the external messaging systems.
  • Destination Bindings: Bridge between the external messaging systems and application-provided Producers and Consumers of messages (created by the Destination Binders).
  • Message: The canonical data structure producers and consumers use to communicate with Destination Binders (and thus other applications via external messaging systems).