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IntermediateAdvanced3 weeks

Message Queues

Process background work and asynchronous communication with durable queues and event streams.

Topic 12 of 24

Prerequisites

API Development
Caching

Key Concepts & Skills

RabbitMQ
Kafka
SQS
Publish messages
Consume jobs
Retry safely
Understand ordering and delivery guarantees

Learning Outcomes

Understand the core principles of RabbitMQ
Configure and deploy Kafka successfully
Troubleshoot common issues with SQS
Understand the core principles of Publish messages
Configure and deploy Consume jobs successfully
Troubleshoot common issues with Retry safely
Understand the core principles of Understand ordering and delivery guarantees

Resources

Official Docs

RabbitMQ tutorials Kafka docs Amazon SQS docs

Practice Exercises

Create a background email job.Implement retries and dead-letter notes.Compare queue vs event stream.

Project Task

Build an async notification worker for a blog backend.

Quiz

Why should queue consumers be idempotent?Explain the answer with one real-world example.List one mistake a beginner might make here.

Notes