How to Resolve Message Backlog and Why Kafka Outperforms RocketMQ
The article outlines practical solutions for RocketMQ message backlog—including scaling consumers, optimizing logic, batch consumption, producer throttling, broker tuning, monitoring, and emergency plans—then explains why Kafka delivers higher performance through sendfile zero‑copy, simple log storage, efficient memory use, and batch sending, and finally compares the two systems on reliability, retry, transactions, filtering, ordering, and suitable use cases.
