In the world of enterprise application development, scalability, adaptability, and flexibility are not just keywords used in marketing but are fundamental characteristics of an application if it hopes to survive in our dynamic world.
Some of the main challenges that monolith applications face are having low availability and handling service disruptions. This is where the use of Apache Kafka for asynchronous communication between microservices can help you avoid bottlenecks that monolithic architectures with relational databases would likely run into.