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Messaging & event-driven designMediumSDE-2

Payment events must not be lost even if a Kafka broker dies. Which producer, topic and broker settings do you use, and what do they cost?

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Goldman SachsPhonePeRazorpayZerodha

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Design a distributed message queue (like Kafka) Lesson: Kafka: partitions, consumer groups and ordering

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