Course of Event bus in Kafka [Infrastructure Design]

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There comes a time when our applications need to scale in terms of features.

When a user signs up we have to send them an email, generate some suggestions for them… and to make the code easier to modify and test, we introduce an in-memory Event Bus.

Then there comes a point where we cannot afford to run everything sequentially, we need asynchrony for those derived cases.

Until now the best options were RabbitMQ, AWS Event Bridge or a database. Kafka was not a viable option because it did not have a queue system.

But with the release of Kafka queues, this has changed.

In this course, we explore how to build a scalable event bus using Kafka.

All of this while questioning why we use the architecture we use and looking at its alternatives.