Lexicon

Single Serial Consumer

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Execution Core

Record: lexicon:single-serial-consumer

Canonical: Lexicon

Processing a queue with one consumer in series, so throughput cannot scale with load.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Shared Database and before Unified CRUD Model.

Category

  • Event Messaging Async

Negated by

  • Competing Consumers

Violates

  • Competing Consumers

Linked from

  • Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture