Building a Simple Message Queue Using Only Two UNIX Signals

Message Queue MCP Servers — Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, NATS, SQS, and Beyond

Message queue MCP servers let AI agents produce and consume messages, manage topics and queues, monitor clusters, and orchestrate event stre

Message Queues Explained: How Async Processing Decouples System Components

A software engineering learner's structured 30-day system design study reached day five with a deep dive into message queues and asynchronou

Job Queues Explained: Retries, Idempotency, and Dead-Letter Queues

A technical guide published on DEV Community breaks down the core challenges of designing reliable job queue systems for backend application

System Design Analysis of Slack's Real-Time Chat Architecture

building the real-time chat service

Signal Messenger

The transactional outbox pattern: keeping a database and Kafka consistent

Wrote this up after one too many "the row updated but the event never fired" incidents. It walks through why the dual-write problem is unavo