Kafka or RabbitMQ? What the Message's Lifecycle Changes
Kafka keeps messages in a log, RabbitMQ tracks their delivery state. We build the same workload on both brokers and see where each one struggles — so you know which to pick, and why.
Kafka keeps messages in a log, RabbitMQ tracks their delivery state. We build the same workload on both brokers and see where each one struggles — so you know which to pick, and why.

An email queue that accepts work with a single INSERT and lets workers handle it reliably: the data model, the race conditions, why exactly-once does not exist, and how to choose between DB polling and a broker.