Message Queues Explained: Why LinkedIn Built Kafka and Changed Async Communication...
Message Queues Explained: Why LinkedIn Built Kafka and Changed Async Communication Forever
Covers: Point-to-Point vs Pub-Sub, Kafka Internals, Delivery Guarantees, Dead Letter Queues, Backpressure
The Upload That Broke Everything
In 2011, LinkedIn's activity feed was choking. Every time a user updated their profile, viewed a connection, or clicked an article, the system needed to:
Update the activity feed
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