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Message queues (7/10): Kafka/SQS at ~500K users
Event-driven design: queues, thin redirect service, analytics workers, idempotency, DLQ.
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System Design course for beginners — scale systems from 1 to 1M users · Part 7/10▼
Part 7: queues, service split, idempotency, DLQ, backpressure.
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Event-driven design: queues, thin redirect service, analytics workers, idempotency, DLQ.
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