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System DesignIntermediate
Battle of the Brokers: Kafka vs. RabbitMQ vs. SQS in Production
A deep dive into the architectural trade-offs between event streaming and message queuing, and how to combine them for hybrid resilience.
Uzeen Chhabra8 min readKafka
KafkaAdvanced
Kafka Architecture In-Depth: Beyond the Basics
A comprehensive deep dive into Kafka's distributed storage, replication mechanics, zero-copy architecture, and KRaft consensus protocol.
Uzeen Chhabra11 min read