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Event-driven systems & architecture

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Choose Wisely: The Messaging Paradigm

Utilizing open-source platforms like N-Service Bus and Mass Transit facilitates the implementation of saga patterns and the outbox pattern, essential for maintaining data integrity and consistency across services. Incorporating these tools supports features like retries and handling transient failures, which are crucial in system reliability. For orchestration, using a state machine helps track flow and manage messaging effectively, warranting an orchestration framework. Understanding patterns such as item potency and message delivery guarantees is vital, as message brokers may deliver messages multiple times or out of order. Employing a design technique rooted in Enterprise Integration Patterns allows for communication through message channels based on specific requirements like latency and throughput. The choice of messaging technology—whether cloud-based solutions like SQS, Kafka, or lower latency options like Redis—must align with the needs of each channel. It's important to consider the trade-offs and difficulties associated with changing your messaging implementation, particularly when transitioning between orchestration and choreography methodologies.

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