Building a Billion‑Message, Millisecond‑Scale Private Messaging System with Spring Boot, RabbitMQ & Redis
This article presents a production‑grade design for a social private‑messaging system that handles billions of messages with millisecond latency, detailing how MySQL serves as the message fact store, RabbitMQ provides low‑latency distribution, Redis manages online state and indexes, and Outbox plus idempotent consumption ensure reliability and ordering.
