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Valentino Christian
How could one horizontally scale a messaging system?

Valentino Christian

Dec 18, 2024

I understand how nodes can be horizontally scaled, and how a messaging system could be vertically scaled to allow more throughput through a particular topic, but how the queue or pub-sub messaging system itself be horizontally scaled?

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Sid D
Sid D5 months ago

One can think of the messaging system itself as being a distributed system composed of independent message servers underneath.

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What is a messaging system?

Queue

Publish-subscribe messaging system