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Re:AsyncAPI vs. OpenAPI: Answers to Your Burning Questions by derberg on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:11AM (#28470550)
what "async" means for you? is it just JS async/await for you? have you used Kafka, or Websocket or only writing and interacting with REST APIs?
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Re:AsyncAPI vs. OpenAPI: Answers to Your Burning Questions by the_arun on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:57AM (#28471117)
For me Async means - non-blocking experience to the user.
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Re:AsyncAPI vs. OpenAPI: Answers to Your Burning Questions by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:21PM (#28472169)
In context of APIS, "async" communications means event notifications and message queues: Amazon SNS/SQS, Amazon Kinesis, Azure Event hub, Kafka, RabbitMQ etc. Anything where you send a message and don't wait for a response, unlike http.
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Re:AsyncAPI vs. OpenAPI: Answers to Your Burning Questions by the_arun on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:20PM (#28472872)
Minor correction to what I said. Async means we do not keep someone/something waiting for response. There are so many options on the implementation as you described.
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