Kafka & Message Queues Explained | System Design Interview Prep (FAANG)
NodePrism |
23 videos |
Updated 3 weeks ago
The complete message broker crash course for system design interviews — 23 focused episodes that take you from "what is a message queue?" to confidently designing event-driven systems in a FAANG interview.
If you keep hearing "just add a queue" or "use Kafka" without really knowing why, this playlist fixes that. No prior Kafka experience needed.
WHAT YOU'LL MASTER
• Message brokers, queues, logs & the 4 messaging patterns
• Delivery guarantees, ordering & the exactly-once myth
• Durability, consumer lag & backpressure
• Kafka deep dive — partitions, replication, producers, consumers, Streams
• RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub, NATS, Pulsar, Redis, Redpanda
• Reliability patterns — retries, dead-letter queues, idempotency
• Advanced patterns — Outbox + CDC, Saga, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Stream Processing
• 3 hands-on projects: order pipeline, real-time scoring, event-sourced service
• Real interview questions, a live system design walkthrough & a night-before cram
WHO IT'S FOR
Software engineers prepping for system design interviews at FAANG and top startups, backend/distributed systems engineers, and anyone leveling up on event-driven architecture.
Start at Episode 1 and go in order, or jump to the topic you're weak on.
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