🚨 Stop Picking the Wrong Queue: You’re Probably Killing Your System 🚨

You’re architecting a new system. You need asynchronous communication. Someone yells “Kafka!” Someone else says “RabbitMQ is easier.” Another person pipes up with “Just use SQS.” They look similar on the surface. They are not interchangeable. They are not even in the same category. Picking the wrong one—and worse, misunderstanding the fundamental concepts—won’t just make your life harder. It will introduce cascading failures that take months to debug and fix. Before you write a single line of co