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    Kafka in Practice

    A practical series on Kafka and event-driven systems for backend engineers. I focus on messaging choices, reliable event delivery, and the trade-offs that shape production systems.

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    Messaging choices and reliable delivery

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    Start by deciding where Kafka fits. Then connect database changes to events with a transactional outbox, and work through ordering, duplicates, and recovery.

    Kafka vs RabbitMQ: When to Choose Each

    Compare retention, replay, routing, ordering, retries, and delivery semantics.

    Transactional Outbox Pattern with Kafka and PostgreSQL

    Work through the dual-write problem, Debezium CDC, idempotent consumers, and recovery.

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