Publish/Subscribe vs Producer/Consumer?

Question

From messaging point of view with systems like kafka, rabbit, hornet mq, activemq etc... Is there a difference between pub/sub and prod/con or are they used interchangeably?

Answer 1

Although both Publish/Subscribe and Producer/Consumer terms are related to messaging, they are different and can't be used interchangeably.

Publish/Subscribe is a messaging pattern where a publication is distributed to multiple receivers. A Producer is the sender of messages and consumer is the receiver of messages. Producers and consumers are an integral part of both Publish/Subscribe and Point-to-Point messaging patterns.

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