Clean and concise explanation of a distinction that trips up a lot of engineers. The point that all message brokers are message queues but not all message queues are message brokers is a great mental model. One thing worth mentioning: with Kafka, the consumer group abstraction is what lets it function as both — single consumer group for queue behavior, multiple for pub/sub. Solid resource for anyone building distributed systems.
Very well explained!
Clean and concise explanation of a distinction that trips up a lot of engineers. The point that all message brokers are message queues but not all message queues are message brokers is a great mental model. One thing worth mentioning: with Kafka, the consumer group abstraction is what lets it function as both — single consumer group for queue behavior, multiple for pub/sub. Solid resource for anyone building distributed systems.
What a great article!
I would like to know when do we talk about Topic/Queue.
If we have a big focus on security in our system, what to choose between queue and broker?
In a broker, do the producer know who are the consumers?
Thanks.
well explained.Thanks
Thank you for this article 🙂
What a great post!
Nice article Vivek! It's an important difference that sometimes is not clear enough.
Your visuals help a lot to understand the difference!