As and when you will start migrating your products/applications to event driven architectures, the first immediate thought would be “Use Kafka!”. Kafka has really matured over time and provides ton of functionalities out of the box to realise a lot of use-cases. However, the most common one being pub-sub model.
Whats Pub-Sub model?
Its mostly that you will be pushing messages/updates on a topic and there will be consumers subscribing to it to get those updates. However, as we know, it’s not going to be conventional push from broker but a pull from consumer.
Usual challenges in such implementations
- Payload serialisation strategy to use. (Avro/proto-buf/Thrift/gRPC/etc)
- If you are…
Garg Vatsal
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