Async Communication

4 topics in async communication.

Publish-Subscribe Pattern

Pub/Sub is the foundation of event-driven architectures. It enables microservices to communicate asynchronously, decouples producers from consumers, and.

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intermediate

Message Queues: RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka and Async Processing

Master message queues for system design: producers, consumers, retries, dead-letter queues, ordering, backpressure, Kafka vs RabbitMQ, and tradeoffs.

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advanced

Change Data Capture: CDC Patterns for Real-Time Data Sync

Learn Change Data Capture for system design: transaction logs, Debezium, event streams, cache sync, search indexing, analytics, and consistency tradeoffs.

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intermediate

Backpressure

Backpressure is a flow control mechanism where a slow consumer signals upstream producers to slow down, preventing memory exhaustion and cascading.

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