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Safeer CM
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Safeer CM is a technology generalist with more than 16 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering. A site reliability engineer by trade, Safeer has managed large-scale production infrastructures at internet giants like Yahoo and LinkedIn and is currently working at Flipkart. He has experience in cloud management and consulting for budding and established startups as a cloud architect. He is an ambassador of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and contributes to the CD and DevOps communities. As a technology speaker, blogger and meetup organizer, Safeer enjoys mentoring new technology talents, especially in the fields of SRE and DevOps.
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SQS

Amazon SQS is a powerful managed message queue service. It is very secure, durable, and highly available. As we discussed in Chapter 2, message queues are systems that help distributed systems decouple their constituent software systems. Being accessible over generic web service APIs that you can integrate with using standard AWS SDKs makes building distributed systems around it much easier. Developers use SQS to scale and decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

SQS enables the users to send, receive, and store messages between dependent software components in an asynchronous fashion. It can handle large volumes of data without scalability challenges or data loss.

Types of queues

There are two types of queues in SQS – standard and first-in, first-out (FIFO). They differ in terms of their ordering and delivery guarantee, as well as scaling:

  • Standard queue: This has unlimited throughput, an at-least-once-delivery, guarantee...
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Safeer CM

Safeer CM is a technology generalist with more than 16 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering. A site reliability engineer by trade, Safeer has managed large-scale production infrastructures at internet giants like Yahoo and LinkedIn and is currently working at Flipkart. He has experience in cloud management and consulting for budding and established startups as a cloud architect. He is an ambassador of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and contributes to the CD and DevOps communities. As a technology speaker, blogger and meetup organizer, Safeer enjoys mentoring new technology talents, especially in the fields of SRE and DevOps.
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