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October 2026
  • 13
    Dead-letter queues
    day 23 · Distributed Systems in 30 Days

    You will learn what poison messages are, how dead-letter queues work in SQS, RabbitMQ and Kafka, how to alert on and own a DLQ, how to redrive safely, and what changes when the consumer is an LLM agent.

September 2026
  • 12
    Why an empty dead letter queue can hide data loss
    day 10 · One Concept a Day — The AI-Era Engineer's Glossary

    A dead letter queue nobody reads isn't a safety net, it's a data-loss incident running on a delay — here's the replay path most teams never build, and why agentic pipelines make triage harder, not easier.