• A messaging pattern in which message senders, called publishers, categorize messages into classes (or topics), and send them without needing to know which components will receive them. Message recipients, called subscribers, express interest in one or more classes and only receive messages in those classes, without needing to know the identity of the publishers. This pattern decouples the components that produce messages from those that consume them, and supports asynchronous, many-to-many communication. The publish–subscribe model is commonly contrasted with message queue and point-to-point messaging models, where producers send messages directly to consumers. ← Wikipedia

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