Message Ordering
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Guaranteeing that messages are delivered in the order they were sent. FIFO queues preserve total order but limit throughput. Partition-level ordering (Kafka) maintains order per partition key while allowing parallel processing across partitions. True global ordering requires a single partition, limiting scalability.
Key Properties
Related
- Delivery Guarantees (ordering interacts with delivery guarantees)
- Pub Sub (ordering within topic partitions)