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Must-Know Message Broker Patterns

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Jan 08, 2026
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Modern distributed systems rely on message brokers to enable communication between independent services.

However, using message brokers effectively requires understanding common architectural patterns that solve recurring challenges. This article introduces seven essential patterns that help developers build reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems using message brokers.

These patterns address three core categories of problems:

  • Ensuring data consistency across services

  • Managing workload efficiently

  • Gaining visibility into the messaging infrastructure.

Whether we’re building an e-commerce platform, a banking system, or any distributed application, these patterns provide proven solutions to common challenges.

In this article, we will look at each of these patterns in detail and understand the scenarios where they help the most.

Ensuring Data Consistency

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