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Message Queue Basics

Decouple with queues

Message queues let producers enqueue tasks and consumers process asynchronously, smoothing spikes and isolating failures with retries and dead-letter queues.

Produce

Publish messages with ids and metadata; avoid giant payloads.

Consume

Process idempotently, ack when done, and handle retries.

Operate

Monitor lag, DLQs, and throughput; scale consumers as needed.

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