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Apr 1, 2021 · Backend Development

Avoid Kafka Pitfalls: Ensuring Message Order, Handling Retries, and Preventing Backlog

This article shares a two‑year journey of using Kafka in a high‑traffic restaurant ordering system, covering why message order matters, how network glitches and partition routing cause failures, and the practical retry, partition‑balancing, and database strategies that finally eliminated backlog and duplication issues.