Messaging queue

A messaging queue is an intermediate component between the interacting entities known as producers and consumers. The producer produces messages and places them in the queue, while the consumer retrieves the messages from the queue and processes them. There might be multiple producers and consumers interacting with the queue at the same time.

Here is an illustration of two applications interacting via a single messaging queue:

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