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Arnab Chatterjee

Full stack web dev , Full time tech enthusiast

May 28, 2023

Implementing Real-Time Notifications Using Redis Pub/Sub

Real-time notifications play a crucial role in enhancing user engagement and providing a dynamic user experience in web applications. One of the popular technologies for implementing real-time communication is Redis Pub/Sub, which offers a scalable a...

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Rahul Bhatt

Software Engineer

May 29, 2023

Interesting article Arnab! Have you worked with Kafka? How is redis pubsub different from Kafka?

I know Kafka is pull based, is redis pubsub also pull based?

Hi Rahul. I haven't used Kafka that much but from what I have understood so far is that Redis Pub/Sub and Kafka differ in terms of data persistence, message ordering, consumer model etc. While Kafka is pull-based, Redis Pub/Sub is push-based, delivering messages to subscribers as soon as they are published.

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Arnab Chatterjee

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May 29, 2023

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Rahul Bhatt

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May 31, 2023

Arnab Chatterjee got it thanks for posting man 👍

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