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Modern applications often need to perform work that should not block the main request. An order service may need to reserve inventory, send a confirmation email, update analytics, and notify a warehouse. Executing every operation synchronously increases response time and creates direct dependencies

Message delivery guarantees describe what can happen when producers, brokers, consumers, networks, or databases fail. A message may be lost, delivered multiple times, or processed only once under specific conditions. These behaviours are commonly described as at-most-once , at-least-once , and exact

Background workers execute tasks outside the main request-response flow of an application. Instead of making an API client wait while a report is generated, an email is sent, or a video is processed, the application places a job into a queue and returns a response quickly. A separate worker receives

Event-driven architecture allows distributed components to communicate by publishing facts about completed business actions. Instead of calling every dependent service directly, a service publishes an event such as order.created , payment.completed , or shipment.delivered . Other services process th