Challenges of distributed messaging systems

Distributed systems are hard. Building a distributed messaging system for these systems to communicate is even harder. In this episode, we unpack some of the challenges of building distributed messaging systems (like NATS), including how Go makes that easy and/or hard as applicable.

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Featuring

• Derek Collison – Twitter, GitHub
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jon Calhoun – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

• nats.go
• What is the definition of “cattle not pets”?
  
• Idempotence
• Apache Kafka

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