TITelcoEdge Inc.intelcoedgeinc.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 9 min readKafka vs RabbitMQ for Telecom Event Processing: Which Architecture Fits Better?Modern telecom platforms generate an enormous number of events. A subscriber activates a service, a SIM changes state, a device establishes a session, a usage record is generated, a payment is complet00
BABetini Akarandutinbetiniakarandut.hashnode.dev·Sep 2 · 23 min readBuilding Offline-First Systems for Low-Connectivity Environments: Architecture Lessons from Nigerian AgritechA note on the architecture This article describes lessons from a production agricultural technology platform. Some implementation details, operational parameters, identifiers, and business-specific lo10
PPPrajapati Pareshinsmarttechdevs.hashnode.dev·Sep 2 · 5 min readBackend Architecture: Change Data Capture (CDC)The Death of the Nightly Cron Job For decades, enterprise data synchronization has relied on a deeply flawed architectural pattern: the batch job. Imagine an e-commerce platform where the primary rela00
SUSandesh Upadhayayinengineeringlair.hashnode.dev·Sep 1 · 20 min readI Built Kafka From Scratch to Understand how it actually worksBut Why?? I had used Kafka enough to know the terminology: topics, partitions, producers, consumers, replication. But knowing the pieces is different from understanding why they fit together the way t00
SGSiddhant Gorteintechwithsiddhant.hashnode.dev·Aug 31 · 16 min readKafka Explained Like You're 5: Events, Partitions, and Consumer GroupsHow does a large application process millions of events every day? Think about a food delivery application. Every minute, thousands of things happen: User places an order Restaurant accepts the order 00
OOutworkTechinoutworktech.hashnode.dev·Aug 31 · 10 min readMessage Queues Explained: When to Use Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQSAs applications become more complex, handling every operation synchronously can quickly create performance and reliability problems. A user places an order, a payment needs to be processed, an email n00
PKPRINCE KUMARinprincekumar-engineer.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 27 min readKafka Explained Like You're 5: Events, Partitions, and Consumer GroupsHow does a large application process millions of events every day? Think about a food delivery app. Every minute, thousands of things are happening: Someone creates an account. Someone places an ord00
MTMRIDUL TIWARIinmriduliti.hashnode.dev·Aug 29 · 7 min readWhen Kafka Hits 100% Disk and the Volume Won't GrowThe alert didn't come from consumer lag. It came from disk — two of three brokers on our production Kafka cluster reporting /data at 100%, with about 20K free on an 850G EBS volume. That's not "we sho00
SPSahil Prasharindevwithsahil.hashnode.dev·Aug 26 · 18 min readKafka Explained Like You're 5: Events, Partitions, and Consumer GroupsHow does a large application process millions of events every day? That question sounds much bigger than it actually is. Imagine an online food delivery application. Someone places an order. Then a lo00
MTMuhammad Tahirinmtdeveloper.hashnode.dev·Aug 26 · 13 min readOrchestrating Distributed AI Agents: Ensuring Data Consistency with Event Sourcing & KafkaThis article was originally published on Muhammad Tahir's Portfolio. Introduction & Industry Context The rapid proliferation of AI agents has ushered in a new era of autonomous workflows, transforming00