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by Joeri 2361 days ago
Message queues and message logs do different things. The idea of the log is that subscribers can show up after the log is written and read or reread it from the beginning. In an event sourced architecture you use the log as the source of truth and all consumers can replay the log against a local store to reconstruct a view of the system’s state. You also can use a log for pubsub, but if that’s all you need one of the MQ solutions is usually a better fit.