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Mar 12, 2016 · Backend Development

Designing Scalable Asynchronous Message Queues: Ctrip’s Hermes Architecture Deep Dive

This article examines Ctrip's Hermes asynchronous messaging system, detailing its evolution from a simple Mongo‑backed queue to a broker‑centric, partitioned architecture with lease‑based cluster management, and shares practical techniques for building high‑performance, low‑latency message queues in large‑scale distributed environments.