Tag: Queues
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Why we need Queues - and what they do when no one is watching
Posted on December 11, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Black Friday’s chaos is a perfect example of how message queues can transform a fragile system into a resilient one, smoothing out traffic spikes and preventing system crashes. By Jakub Slys.
Tags programming software-architecture app-development queues
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AWS Lambda enhances event processing with provisioned mode for SQS event-source mapping
Posted on November 30, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
Provisioned mode for SQS ESM enables dedicated resources (event pollers) that scale up to 1000 per minute to handle traffic spikes and low latency processing, maintaining up to 20K concurrency. This improves performance and responsiveness of event-driven apps, making it a viable option for high throughput scenarios. By Micah Walter.
Tags aws serverless queues messaging app-development
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How I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years
Posted on November 26, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Reddit's early use of RabbitMQ highlighted the critical need for robust, durable task queues to handle high-volume, asynchronous operations – a lesson that continues to resonate in modern distributed systems. By DBOS.
Tags messaging queues software-architecture distributed web-development app-development
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A gentle introduction to event driven architecture in Python, Flask and Kafka
Posted on November 24, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A Gentle Introduction to Event Driven Architecture in Python, Flask and Kafka. In today's fast-paced and scalable application development landscape, event-driven architecture (EDA) has emerged as a powerful pattern for building systems that are decoupled, reactive, and highly extensible. By Sefik Ilkin Serengil.
Tags cloud messaging queues software-architecture python
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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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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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The benefits of event-driven architecture
Posted on March 7, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software design pattern used in microservices or other decoupled services or apps. Each service in the ecosystem can asynchronously publish and subscribe to events via an event broker. By Darryn Campbell.
Tags web-development app-development queues streaming event-driven
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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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Streams in Scala - introductory guide
Posted on September 19, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Streams in Scala provide a lazy evaluation mechanism where elements are computed on-demand rather than being eagerly evaluated and stored in memory. This allows for efficient memory utilization, especially when dealing with large datasets or potentially infinite sequences of data. By Aniefiok Akpan.
Tags akka scala programming learning streaming 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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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