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Real-Time Messaging with ZeroMQ: Patterns That Actually Work
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Real-Time Messaging with ZeroMQ: Patterns That Actually Work

For the last eight months I've been building a real-time notification, messaging, and event processing system from scratch. The stack: Node.js, ZeroMQ, Elasticsearch, and Socket.IO, running across a handful of AWS EC2 instances. No RabbitMQ. No ActiveMQ. No Kafka. No broker at all.

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