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Re:How Discord handles over a million requests per minute wi... by teacpde on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @04:22AM (#13165592)
> You can also do this with Kafka but it'll be less transactional.

Could you explain why using RabbitMQ is more transactional?

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Re:How Discord handles over a million requests per minute wi... by chillydawg on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @07:59AM (#13166439)
I've no idea about kafka but rabbit offers you message ack/nack and publisher confirms. Generally, you can build very solid things on top of it, depending on whether you need to distribute rabbit or not.
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