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Dead letter queue

Dead letter queue shows up across 3 courses in 2 layersof the data platform stack. Here's where it's taught, a free way to practice it, and what to learn next.

Where it's taught

⇄Ingestion & Transport

CDC at Scale: Patterns & Pitfalls

Outbox pattern, ordering, schema evolution, DLQ/replay, exactly-once sinks, and GDPR erasure for CDC.

11 ch · 3h 50m

1 free

Designing a Production Ingestion Platform

Architect an end-to-end ingestion platform: contracts, taxonomy, multi-tenancy, DLQ/replay, cost, cross-region.

12 ch · 4h 25m

1 free
⚙Orchestration & Pipelines

Building Pipelines That Don't Page You

Idempotency as a design choice, backfill as a first-class API, small DAGs with sharp edges, contract tests at the source, partitioning for the reader, dead-letter queues for data, where to put state, and how to design for a one-engineer team. The build-side answer to every failure mode in this stratum.

8 ch · 1h 29m

1 free

Related topics

↗data contracts↗backfills↗backpressure↗capacity planning↗CDC↗change data capture↗disaster recovery↗dual-write problem↗exactly-once↗idempotency

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Start: CDC at Scale: Patterns & Pitfalls →All strata
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