Tag: Messaging
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Choosing between EventBridge, SNS, and SQS for event-driven patterns
Posted on June 12, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
AWS offers multiple services for decoupling business domains in event-driven patterns. The three main ones are EventBridge, SNS, and SQS. Use EventBridge for targeted content-based routing when you need to match complex rules. By Arpad Toth.
Tags aws app-development web-development queues messaging distributed
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Fifteen essential design patterns explained with Java examples
Posted on January 2, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Design patterns are reusable solutions to common problems in software design. They provide a proven and efficient way to solve complex problems, making it easier for developers to write better code. By Akash Pandey.
Tags software-architecture java queues messaging learning
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MongooseIm 6.3: Prometheus, CockroachDB and more
Posted on November 24, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
MongooseIM is a scalable, efficient, high-performance instant messaging server using the proven, open, and extensible XMPP protocol. With each new version, we introduce new features and improvements. By Pawel Chrzaszcz.
Tags database app-development cio messaging performance erlang
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Understanding messaging queues: The backbone of modern software architecture
Posted on September 24, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
In today's fast-paced and interconnected digital world, the need for robust and efficient communication between different components of a software system is paramount. Messaging queues have emerged as a vital solution to this challenge, providing a reliable way to manage and coordinate the flow of messages between various parts of an application. By Sean Coughlin.
Tags queues learning app-development devops messaging
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Top 9 Twilio alternatives and competitors in 2024
Posted on January 24, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length long
If you are looking for Twilio alternatives to create better communications for your apps and websites, then here are top nine options to choose from. By Hardik Shah.
Tags messaging miscellaneous agile teams
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Choosing between message queues and event streams
Posted on January 19, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Implementing an event-driven architecture (EDA) is a road riddled with challenges. Among them is choosing the right tooling for the job. Many event-driven tools seem quite similar, at least at first glance, and you'd expect they could be used equally well for the same purposes. But that's often not the case and choosing the solution best suited to your needs can be tricky. By Tun Shwe.
Tags cicd messaging event-driven queues
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Delivering messages at the scale of the World Cup
Posted on June 29, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Events like the World Cup bring together a huge number of fans like Alex all over the world. The biggest challenge in maintaining such a service is scale. The type of traffic for such events can be extremely spiky. A very steady traffic volume can suddenly spike when Mbappe scores the goal that ties the game. Suddenly, FCM needs to notify 250M users about this event. By Michelangelo Mecozzi.
Tags messaging cloud queues nosql microservices
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From polling to websockets: Improving order tracking user experience
Posted on June 10, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Where is my order? Is the app stuck? Even when everything else in an application is polished, the user experience might be far from delightful if the information on the screen rarely updates. Displaying up-to-date and often updating information on an application view inspires confidence in the quality of the product and the prospect of getting what you ordered. By Tero Laitinen.
Tags servers app-development web-development event-driven messaging
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CQRS facts and myths explained
Posted on May 30, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Older but still relevant article dealing with question of technical patterns and how they are filled with myths and mishaps. Quite often, this happens to CQS and CQRS. By Oskar Dudycz.
Tags event-driven oop app-development messaging programming software-architecture
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Comparing Avro vs Protobuf for data serialization
Posted on April 18, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Data serialization is a crucial aspect of modern distributed systems because it enables the efficient communication and storage of structured data. In this article, we will discuss two popular serialization formats: Avro and Protocol Buffers, Protobuf for short, and compare their strengths and weaknesses to help you make an informed decision about which one to use in your projects. By Daniel Selans.
Tags json queues messaging app-development streaming apache
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Using Vulcan codecs with Kafka Java APIs
Posted on April 17, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
For those that aren't familiar, Vulcan is a functional Avro encoding library that uses the official Apache Avro library under the hood. The difference between this and the official Avro build plugins approach is that the types are defined in plain Scala. Then the Avro schema is generated from those instead of defining the Avro schema and getting code generated at compile time that adheres to that schema. By César Enrique.
Tags apache java messaging app-development streaming scala
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How Pub/Sub eliminates boring meetings and makes your systems scale
Posted on November 21, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
So, you've said goodbye to the monolithic application and refactored it into services. You are shipping faster and the code is cleaner. But the complexity of communication between the services is causing performance issues. And every time a new team needs to integrate, it's a whole lot of meetings. By Priyanka Vergadia, Kir Titievsky.
Tags devops software-architecture code-refactoring messaging queues