3 articles tagged with Kafka.
Synchronous calls couple your services together and fail together. Events let systems react instead of ask. This is the map: the patterns, the messaging tools, and the delivery guarantees that make it work.
Kafka and RabbitMQ both move messages, but they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one shows up in your on-call rotation later.
Picking partition counts and keys decides whether your Kafka consumers scale linearly or hit a wall. The patterns that survived rebalances, partition-count changes, and consumer-group ops.
