https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/messaging/ Recent content in Messaging on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Wed, 18 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2022/05/kafka-at-startup-scale/ Wed, 18 May 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2022/05/kafka-at-startup-scale/ Running Kafka at a startup is different from running it at enterprise scale. The operational complexity is real, the defaults are wrong for small clusters, and the failure modes are different from what the documentation implies. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2015/01/chronicle-queue-vs-kafka-choosing-a-persistent-journal-at-nanosecond-scale/ Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:44:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2015/01/chronicle-queue-vs-kafka-choosing-a-persistent-journal-at-nanosecond-scale/ Both Chronicle Queue and Kafka provide persistent, ordered message logs. Their performance profiles, operational models, and use cases are almost completely different. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2014/09/aeron-reliable-udp-multicast-for-market-data-distribution/ Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:28:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2014/09/aeron-reliable-udp-multicast-for-market-data-distribution/ Aeron is a message transport library built around reliable UDP and memory-mapped files, designed for the sub-microsecond latency and high throughput that market data distribution demands. Here's what it looks like in practice.