#Message Queue

5 articles tagged with Message Queue.

••4 days ago

When to Use a Message Queue (and When Not To)

A practical guide to the signals that justify a message queue, the costs it adds, and a checklist for deciding.

Kiril Urbonas

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••5 days ago

Dead-Letter Queues: Handling Messages That Won't Process

A practical guide to dead-letter queues, the pattern that isolates poison messages so one bad payload can't stall your whole pipeline.

Kiril Urbonas·1

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••last week

Message Queue Patterns Every Backend Engineer Should Know

A practical tour of the message queue patterns that keep distributed backends decoupled, resilient, and able to survive traffic spikes.

Kiril Urbonas

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Kafka vs RabbitMQ: How to Choose in 2026

Kafka and RabbitMQ both move messages, but they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one shows up in your on-call rotation later.

Kiril Urbonas

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Event-Driven Architecture — The Complete Guide

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.

Kiril Urbonas

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