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System Design: Designing a Distributed Message Queue (Kafka Architecture)

System Design: Designing a Distributed Message Queue A Distributed Message Queue is the backbone of modern asynchronous architecture. It allows services to communicate without being tightly coupled. While many use Apache…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

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System DesignAdvanced

System Design: Designing a Video Conferencing System (Zoom / MS Teams)

System Design: Designing a Video Conferencing System Designing a real-time video conferencing system like Zoom or Microsoft Teams is fundamentally different from a video streaming service like YouTube. While YouTube prio…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

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Kafka Consumer Lag: Causes, Diagnosis, and Production Fixes

Kafka consumer lag is not a root cause. It is a symptom. Lag means consumers are not keeping up with producers for one or more partitions. The fix depends on why: slow processing, too few consumers, partition skew, rebal…

Apr 7, 20265 min read

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MessagingAdvanced

Kafka Internals Deep Dive: Partitions, Offsets, and Consumer Groups

Apache Kafka is the de facto standard for event streaming in distributed systems, but most developers treat it as a black box — a durable message queue with a fancy name. Understanding Kafka's internals unlocks its true…

Jan 15, 202510 min read

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