Most mission-critical systems have distributed elements or are entirely distributed, resulting in a number of challenges: performance, scalability, reliability, resilience...the eight fallacies of distributed computing are alive and well!

Messaging platforms are often used to solve these problems and increase the "ilities", but they don't come without a few complexities of their own. Come to this session to learn not just how to use open source and best-of-breed solutions like Spring Cloud Stream, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, & Event Hubs to maximize your distributed systems' capabilities while minimizing complexity...but how to *really* use them! Messaging platforms offer numerous challenges and opportunities for developers; the presenter will show you powerful ways to navigate and harness them for maximum throughput, maximum flexibility. All examples will be coded *live and in real time*!