Interesting, I feel like I've seen much more literature about RESTful microservices than message oriented approaches. I've done it both ways and I'm of the opinion that RESTful services are more complicated for a couple reasons:
* All RESTful services must be up and running for application to be fully up and running
* application must have all knowledge of RESTful services it calls
With messaging (and PubSub), services don't need to be running at all times and you can add as many services you'd like without the application needing to know. Applications just says "hey, something happened" and services go to work.
I agree with you, in either case, it is important to code defensively and be aware of possible request version mismatches. Deployment coordination is probably awash between the 2 approaches. I think testing is more of a challenge with message oriented too, as most integration testing tools are geared towards HTTP interactions.
* All RESTful services must be up and running for application to be fully up and running * application must have all knowledge of RESTful services it calls
With messaging (and PubSub), services don't need to be running at all times and you can add as many services you'd like without the application needing to know. Applications just says "hey, something happened" and services go to work.
I agree with you, in either case, it is important to code defensively and be aware of possible request version mismatches. Deployment coordination is probably awash between the 2 approaches. I think testing is more of a challenge with message oriented too, as most integration testing tools are geared towards HTTP interactions.