Message Queues and Brokers Help With Temporal Decoupling

One of the more common reactions I hear when engineers first encounter a message broker in a service-to-service communication context is that it feels like overengineering. Why introduce Kafka or RabbitMQ when a plain HTTP call does the same job with less infrastructure? It’s a fair question on the surface, and the people asking it aren’t wrong that a broker adds operational complexity. What…