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Patterns of data loading: Topics and broadcast

Continuing the discussion of the data loading and messaging, this post is going to cover the tradeoffs to consider when working with Topic and Broadcast based systems. Directly Consuming Topics Isn’t Really A Thing Topics, Pub/Sub, and other one-to-many messaging systems are an extremely interesting and important abstraction, but they don’t overlap with a discussion of data loading.

Continuing the discussion of the data loading and messaging, this post is going to cover the tradeoffs to consider when working with Topic and Broadcast based systems. Topics, Pub/Sub, and other one-to-many messaging systems are an extremely interesting and important abstraction, but they don’t overlap with a discussion of data loading. The message broker will either use a queue for each client, which is covered here (link), or it is a broadcast, without guarantees.

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