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Publish–Subscribe Model, Explained Like You’re Building It Tomorrow
21+ hour, 5+ min ago (228+ words) How the pattern behind Kafka, Redis, and Google Pub/Sub keeps modern systems decoupled, scalable, and resilient. You’ve …...
How Uber Handles Trillions of Kafka Messages Without Bringing Everything Down
21+ hour, 6+ min ago (23+ words) How Uber built a Kafka architecture for trillions of daily messages using federated clusters, uReplicator, Chaperone, consumer proxies, dead-letter queues, and tiered storage....
Kafka Delivery Semantics Explained: Why Your Consumer Processes Records Twice
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (25+ words) At-most-once, at-least-once, and exactly-once — what each actually guarantees, why duplicates happen, and how to build …...
Stream Processing on the Mainframe With Apache Flink
3+ day, 54+ min ago (897+ words) Apache Flink on the IBM mainframe connects real-time processing with core systems, enabling hybrid cloud and AI without full migration. A few months ago, I wrote about integrating Apache Kafka with mainframe systems. The blog covered various real-world examples across…...
Building Reliable Event-Driven Systems with RabbitMQ: Lessons From Production
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (1289+ words) Building a distributed system is relatively straightforward when everything works as expected. The real engineering challenge begins when services fail, messages are delivered more than once, consumers restart halfway through processing, or traffic suddenly increases. Over the years, I have…...
One symptom, ten problems: a Kotlin + Spring Boot + Kafka debugging case
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (559+ words) A single visible symptom led to many defects, half unrelated to it but all tied to one invariant... Tagged with ai, programming, webdev, javascript....
How Roblox Scaled Its Kafka Platform to Over 18 Trillion Messages a Day
1+ week, 2+ day ago (280+ words) By Huizhi Lu, Julian Kudszus, Peter Yao, Jeffrey Zhong, and Sen Li Published Sep 4, 2026 A common misconception about large-scale systems is that capacity is mostly a hardware problem. In our experience, the most impactful improvements are made by treating scalability…...
Padrões de Sistemas Distribuídos (#01): Dual-Write Problem — por que `@Transactional` sozinho não basta com Kafka
1+ week, 2+ day ago (569+ words) O banco salvou os dados. O Kafka não recebeu a mensagem. E agora? Em sistemas distribuídos, uma... Tagged with distributedsystems, kafka, java, architecture....
Building Kafka from scratch to understand its internals
1+ week, 2+ day ago (536+ words) There's a specific kind of confusion that only shows up when you've been using a tool long enough to be dangerous with it. You know what to do, you just can't fully explain why it works. That was me with…...
Real-Time Features Need to Match Your Infrastructure, Not Just Your Feature Spec
1+ week, 2+ day ago (508+ words) I got an email from Vercel. "You've used 75% of your free plan resources." A few hours later, I was at 100%. I'd been building VisionBoard — AI workflows, MCPs, goal tracking, task assignments, a notification engine, the usual list of things a…...