Reducing Microservice Complexity with Kafka and Reactive Streams

Explore microservice architecture optimization in this Scala Days New York 2016 conference talk. Discover how to leverage Apache Kafka and Reactive Streams to address the challenges of transitioning from monolithic applications to microservices. Learn strategies for reducing request latency by extracting non-critical processing from the critical path, implementing back-pressure mechanisms to handle varying producer/consumer speeds, and maintaining high availability and performance with reliable messaging. Gain insights into evolving message payloads while ensuring backwards and forwards compatibility. Delve into practical approaches for managing the increased complexity that comes with microservice architectures, ultimately enhancing your system's scalability and performance.