Chapter 08

Message Queues

Decouple slow or bursty work from the request path with a queue, trading immediate consistency for throughput and resilience.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

✦Publisher-Subscriber design pattern
✦Message broker scaling (Kafka / RabbitMQ)
✦At-least-once vs Exactly-once delivery
✦Backpressure and consumer groups

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