The world today thrives on notifications -> Trillions of them each hour. Instagram, WhatsApp adn X run today's creator-led, adrenaline flushed economies, where each ping is synonymous to a heart throb
But beyond the flashy world of the gram also are notifications and events paramount -> hundreds of millions of business workflows powering applications at scale, and unlike gram, where notification load is evenly distributed throughout the day, business notifications often are bulk publish - a few hundred million notifications published in seconds, when, say, a payment workflow completes.
I had a chance to contribute to an architecture of such scale, and powering it all was the Azure ServiceBus.
I had always wondered why event processing and queuing systems were called 'Bus' - EventBus, ServiceBus, MessageBus