Feb 1 · 7 min read · Background We discussed this in previous articles that when engineers first encounter distributed systems, they subconsciously carry an assumption from single-machine programming: if something happens, the system knows it happened. If it didn’t happe...
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Sep 16, 2025 · 24 min read · The landscape of modern distributed systems is fundamentally shaped by how we handle asynchronous communication. Message queues, event streams, and message brokers are the backbone of microservices architectures, enabling decoupling, scalability, and...
Join discussionAug 16, 2025 · 29 min read · At-least-once semantics ensure every message reaches its destination one or more times, minimizing message loss but allowing possible duplicates. At-most-once semantics deliver each message no more than once, which can result in lost messages but avo...
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