Asynchronous Communication & Messaging — System Design Roadmap
Decoupling services and handling communication that doesn't need an immediate response
Steps in Asynchronous Communication & Messaging
- Synchronous vs Asynchronous Communication — intermediate · Blocking request/response calls vs fire-and-forget or queued communication
- Message Queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS) — intermediate · Durable queues that decouple producers from consumers
- Publish/Subscribe Systems — intermediate · Broadcasting events to multiple independent consumers
- Event-Driven Architecture — intermediate · Designing systems around events rather than direct service-to-service calls
- WebSockets & Long Polling — intermediate · Techniques for real-time, bidirectional or near-real-time client updates
- gRPC vs REST vs GraphQL — intermediate · Comparing API paradigms for service-to-service and client-to-service communication
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