Introduction to Messages Queues

This text introduces message queues as a tool used to facilitate communication between different layers and services in modern software and system architectures. It explains that message queues maintain an internal queue of messages, buffering and distributing them on schedule to the intended destination. The concept of message producers and consumers is also discussed, with producers creating messages and consumers processing them. Advantages of using message queues include asynchronous processing, scalability, handling traffic spikes, and resilience against failure at one end not affecting the other. Finally, it mentions that there are open source frameworks and third-party services available to help implement message queues.