Questions tagged [message-queue]
A message queue is a service that receives events or messages from producers and provides them to consumers.
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When to use Advanced Message Queuing Protocol like RabbitMQ? [closed]
Can somebody explain me in what use-cases I should consider using AMQP like e.g. RabbitMQ? What are the pros and cons?
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Why database as queue so bad? [closed]
I've just read this article, and I'm confused.
Let's imagine 1 webapp and 1 distinct application acting as "worker", both sharing the same database.
Oh, I said "sharing"..but what does the article ...
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How to implement a message queue over Redis?
Why Redis for queuing?
I'm under the impression that Redis can make a good candidate for implementing a queueing system. Up until this point we've been using our MySQL database with polling, or ...
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Message Queue. Database vs Dedicated MQ
I am after advice regarding message queueing. We have requirements for "jobs" to be posted to a message queue.
The original suggestion was just to use a SQL Server instance and process messages from ...
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Designing an scalable message queue architecture
I have recently started learning the nuances of scalable and enterprise computer architecture, and one of the central components is a messaging queue. In order to learn the most I can from any ...
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What are the solutions to the Distributed Queue problem?
I am trying to learn more about the various ways that the problem of a Distributed Queue may be solved. So I would like know what products, services, implementations and research papers that are ...
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Does Akka obsolesce JMS/AMQP message brokers? [closed]
I spent the last week deep diving into the Akka docs and finally understand what actor systems are, and the problems that they solve.
My understanding (and experience with) traditional JMS/AMQP ...
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Using flat files vs database/API as a transport between a frontend and backend
I've got an application which has generated a rather heated discussion between a couple of the developers.
Basically, it's split into a web layer and a backend layer. The web layer collects ...
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Traditional Message Brokers and Streaming Data
According to the Kafka site:
"Kakfa is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming apps."
Searching the internet far and wide, I've found the following generally-accepted definition ...
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UML: Queue processor in a sequence diagram
Which is the appropriate way of representing a queue processor in a UML sequence diagram?
I want to represent in the same diagram two systems that are loosely coupled through a queue. The first ...
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REST or a message queue in a multi-tier heterogeneous system?
I'm designing a REST API for a three-tier system like: Client application -> Front-end API cloud server -> user's home API server (Home).
Home is a home device, and is supposed to maintain connection ...
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Handling changes in a event-driven microservice architecture
I'm doing an research-project where I'm researching the options to handle changes in an event-driven microservice architecture.
So, let's say we got an application where we got four different ...
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Product agnostic book on Message Queues? [closed]
Are there any recommendations for book(s) that are largely agnostic (with examples of MQ implementations is fine) on vendor but go to great details on the architecture, management, nomenclature, ...
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Microservices - compensate service failure with queue
We are using some sort of microservices approach in our app (although it is not really consequently adhered to).
When a service is down or throwing an exception, the approach is to put it into a ...
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Message Queues and Multiple Subscribers
My team is discussing using RabbitMQ for microservice to microservice communication (among other things). We are also supporting a SAP backend that will be pushing data to us in a method undecided at ...
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Message validation in async messaging-based services
I'm looking for information on the best approach to message validation in asynchronous-messaging-based services (i.e. services that pull messages from some sort of message queue or broker, rather than ...
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Implementation of communication between packages (Java)
I'm making a project with 5 packages. The packages can communicate with each other by sending Messages to a central MessageQueue in the Main package and that MessageQueue takes care of all the ...
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Do I actually need a message broker or are websockets enough?
The website I am building has a real-time messaging component. The backend is built with Flask and I have integrated Flask-SocketIO to handle Websocket connections when users are on the messaging page....
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Fair distributed task scheduling with RabbitMQ
Problem: A single client of our system can completely flood all available resources with a massive workload. You can consider we have only one queue, and anyone can schedule any amount of work in it. ...
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Best way to notify the client in real time that their queue (e.g. SQS) job has finished?
Current Scenario
Our application allows users to upload (Amazon S3) and manage their files through our interface. Currently those users can download the files directly from S3/Cloudfront through our ...
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Implementing a caching microservice by avoiding potential bottlenecks
The system I am working on employs quite a sophisticated caching/preloading mechanism for external third-parties, and since it is built on a microservice architecture, I would like to extract the ...
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Slow throughput - still worth using a dedicated message queue?
Here are some requirements for a queue:
Every few days add ~100k tasks with various priorities
Workers will pull tasks at typically less than 10 / second
Tasks need to be completed by ~2 unique ...
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How do I document a communication protocol on top of message queues and channels?
I'm working on a large project at the moment and I'm trying to document the communication protocol that sits on top of a message queue middleware.
The documentation is intended for another ...
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Understanding the Single-Writer Principle
The article on the Single-Writer Principle of the Mechanical Sympathy blog explains how bad queues are (performance-wise), because they need to be able to receive messages from multiple produers, and ...
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Design question for handling large volumes of messages in multi-tenant queue
I have a system with two applications interacting via a message queue. Let's call them Producer and Consumer. Some key context is that this a multi-tenancy scenario.
Producer produces events based ...
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Handling cases where the message queue is unreachable
We are using Apache Camel with ActiveMQ in a microservice architecture in a growing system of integration solutions. I was wondering how each service should react when they are unable to connect to ...
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Best practice for ensuring name uniqueness/correctness in message queues in a microservice architecture/distributed system
I was wondering what a good solution would be for ensuring that queue-names are entered correctly and are only used by the correct applications in a large system which uses message queues to exchange ...
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Web Service and Message Queue
We're looking at creating a web services/REST API layer that will be consumed by web and mobile clients.
To make the solution more robust I was considering putting the commands from PUT, POST, and ...
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How to deal with failing messages in DDD?
We have a set of micro-services all built according to the Domain Driven Design (DDD). The micro-services communicate via Domain Events with each other (OrderSubmittedEvent, CustomerBilledEvent, ...). ...
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How to structure messages between a web server and a job server
For the SaaS infrastructure I'm building, we need to send transactional emails and run other long-running tasks on a separate job server. I can communicate via a queue, such as AWS' SQS or via a ...
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Message queue vs database for delayed tasks
I need to build a system that can handle a fairly high amount of delayed tasks (e.g. scheduled emails). For non-delayed tasks I would go for something like RabbitMQ.
But, is it ok to let tasks ...
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Is having a bi directional message queue a design smell?
I have an architecture with 1 backend server and multiple frontend servers.
The frontend servers are connected in a bi-directional (web sockets) connection to clients so they can send messages to ...
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Synchronization of data across microservices
We have 2 to 3 dozen microservices that serve our customers.
These services are deployed in a Kubernetes cluster, and they're only accessible to the outside world through 3 or 4 API gateways.
We ...
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How to Recover from Inconsistent Job State without Database Polling
I'm working on scaling an application which is currently polling a mySQL database to send async jobs to a background processing system.
A state machine is being used to keep track of the entities ...
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How to handle thousands of messages to C socket?
I currently have a setup looking like this:
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| Front end server |----| Varnish |----| NodeJS |----| C-service |
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Message Bus v Mediator pattern v In Memory Bus
I am struggling to understand when to use each of these:
1) Message Bus: Used to send integration events between Microservices. For example, Microservice A could publish an integration event, which ...
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Where does Windows Workflow Foundation fit into the messaging oriented middleware architecture?
I've been trying to find information online about where WWF 4.5 fits with in an architecture based around an enterprise message queue using central broker(s) (RabbitMQ in particular).
It seems like ...
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AMQP routing-keys naming anti-patterns when using topics
I'm working on the specification for building a web services platform and AMQP is the messaging protocol used for the interaction between the components of this platform.
I'm using topic exchanges ...
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Communicating bulk data among microservices
Is there a pattern or design that I could refer to for dealing with bulk data in inter-services communication.
My use case is to import data from upstream feed files(say 50k records) to our ...
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NoSQL Document Database as a Message Queue
I am considering using a NoSQL Document database as a messaging queue.
Here is why:
I want a client to post a message (some serialized object) to the server and not have to wait for a synchronous ...
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Architecture for message processing with scheduling, at scale
I have to design the architecture of a system that processes messages in a distributed manner. If this were the only requirement, I would use a message queue like Kafka and distribute the work with ...
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Message driven architecture and horizontal scaling
During working on a pet project in microservice event driven architecture, I've faced a problem of delivering responses to a client.
Each microservice (API Gateway etc) has many replicas and has it's ...
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Master-Slave Cluster - How to make sure the master is really dead for the slave to take over?
I have a in-house messaging system, similar to a message broker. We have one master message broker and one slave message broker. A message broker just receives messages and sends them to all nodes. ...
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Design pattern for large amounts of overflowing data?
Our current queues publish messages that consumed by 3rd party services with rate limits. Currently the messages are retried with exponential back-off. However there could be cases where data is ...
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Architecture for real-time application, avoiding duplicate messages for queues with no active consumers
I am designing the architecture of an application which has your typical backend and frontend components. The frontend application must be semi real-time. For this requirement, the backend is pushing ...
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distributed application design - using message broker
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I'm trying to design a layer/component in my distributed application that will communicate between component A and component B.
Right now, this "communication" is accomplished by ...
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How many Topics (queues) to practically use in an ESB
In all the Service Bus examples and tutorials I've seen, they cover publishing a single message to a single Topic that is picked up by a single listening Subscriber. Whilst this is good for a simple ...
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Message publishing interface when deferring until transaction is committed
Suppose I have the following interface used for publishing messages onto a message queue:
interface IMessageProducer
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void Publish<TMessage>(TMessage message);
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Normally, an implementer ...
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Is it always the best way to go to queue emails instead of sending them real-time? [duplicate]
If you had to decide between queueing emails and sending them real-time, is it always the best way to go putting them in a queue and sending them one by one instead of instantly as soon as a user ...
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Azure ServiceBus Queue: Consumer Application
I am running a .net MVC4 web application. I want to be able to hit an action on a controller, create an email and send it to my service bus queue to be processed (sent).
What are my options as far ...
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