messaging
Practical resources about messaging for software engineers.
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Connecting Systems with Messages and Events
When direct API calls become bottlenecks, messaging patterns provide the decoupling and resilience needed for distributed systems. Message queues, event buses, and stream processors handle backpressure, retries, and eventual consistency.
This collection covers recipes for implementing pub/sub patterns, using message brokers like RabbitMQ and Kafka, designing event-driven architectures, and handling dead letter queues. Each pattern includes failure scenarios and recovery strategies.
Inbox Pattern
Use a dedicated inbox table or queue to record incoming events or requests, ensuring reliable...
Message Deduplication Pattern
Prevent duplicate processing by tracking message IDs with idempotency keys. Consumers check a store...
Message Deferral Pattern
Delay message processing to a scheduled time. Move messages that cannot be processed now to a...
Message Queue Load Leveling Pattern
Smooth traffic spikes by placing a queue between a producer and a consumer. The producer writes...
Publish-Subscribe Pattern
Broadcast events to multiple independent subscribers. Publishers send messages to a topic without...
Queue-Based Load Leveling Pattern
Introduce a queue between task producers and consumers to smooth out traffic spikes, decouple...
Sequential Convoy Pattern
Preserve message ordering for related messages in a distributed system by grouping them into...
Dead Letter Queue Runbook
Runbook for handling and replaying dead letter queue messages in Kafka and RabbitMQ: DLQ setup,...
Kafka Topic Naming Convention Template
Template for standardizing Kafka topic names across teams: naming patterns, environment prefixes,...
Message Schema Evolution Policy
Policy for evolving message schemas safely in event-driven systems: backward and forward...
RabbitMQ Queue Design Template
Template for documenting RabbitMQ queue, exchange, and binding design: exchange types, queue...
Complete Guide to Kafka Stream Processing
Build real-time event streaming pipelines with Kafka. Covers producers, consumers, Kafka Streams,...
Complete Guide to Microservices Communication
Compare sync vs async communication patterns for microservices. Covers REST, gRPC, message queues,...
CQRS + Event Sourcing — Combined Guide
A practical guide to combining CQRS and Event Sourcing: separating read and write models,...
Stream Processing: Event-Driven Data Pipelines with
A practical guide to stream processing: choosing between Kafka Streams, Flink, and Spark Streaming,...
Complete Guide to Event-Driven Systems
Design and operate event-driven backends. Covers event sourcing, CQRS, sagas, outbox pattern,...
Complete Guide to Apache Kafka in Production
Run Apache Kafka in production with confidence. Covers partitions, replication, consumer groups,...
Complete Guide to RabbitMQ Architecture
Design and operate RabbitMQ for reliable messaging. Covers exchanges, queues, bindings, routing...
Message Queues — RabbitMQ, Kafka, and SQS detailed analysis
A thorough guide to message queues: when to use RabbitMQ, Kafka, or SQS. Covers patterns,...
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