Event-driven architecture and message queues in payment systems

PaymentsBy: Ahmadreza Ahmadi2 min readSource: Civilica
Event-driven architecture and message queues in payment systems

1Introduction

Synchronous call chains let one slow service stall the whole system.

2Discussion

Services publish events such as "payment completed"; consumers process them independently.

Brokers like Kafka and RabbitMQ persist messages until processed, so nothing is lost during outages.

Idempotent consumers keyed by unique event IDs prevent duplicate payments.

3Conclusion

The outbox pattern keeps database changes and published events consistent; trade-offs include tracing and eventual consistency.

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همفکران فناوری شریفThis article summarises the official sources cited, prepared by the Hamfekran Fanavari Sharif team for finance leaders.
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