Tag: Ruby monolith
When the Message Broker Becomes the Bottleneck: Scaling Push and SMS With MongoDB Polling
Pavel Zavialov | | asynchronous processing, atomic task claiming, backend engineering, database-backed queue, dead-letter queue, distributed systems, Go microservices, idempotency, , microservices architecture, MongoDB performance, MongoDB polling queue, notification architecture, notification service, push notifications, RabbitMQ scaling, retry strategy, Ruby monolith, SMS delivery, Wheely engineeringA back-end team extracted notification delivery from a large Ruby monolith into a centralized Go service, only to discover that their shared RabbitMQ cluster could not reliably support the new workload. Here's ...
