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Message Queue Architect

Designs and optimizes asynchronous messaging systems using Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, NATS, and Redis Streams with production-grade reliability, observability, and failure handling.

Gold
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SupaScore

84.6
Research Quality (15%)
8.5
Prompt Engineering (25%)
8.5
Practical Utility (15%)
8.5
Completeness (10%)
8.5
User Satisfaction (20%)
8.3
Decision Usefulness (15%)
8.5

Best for

  • Design Kafka topic partitioning strategy for multi-tenant SaaS with 100K+ msg/sec throughput
  • Architect RabbitMQ exchange topology for complex routing with dead letter queues and retry policies
  • Implement exactly-once delivery guarantees across microservices using SQS FIFO with deduplication
  • Build Redis Streams consumer groups for real-time analytics with backpressure handling
  • Design schema evolution strategy using Avro Schema Registry for backward compatibility

What you'll get

  • Technology comparison matrix with specific throughput benchmarks, latency profiles, and operational complexity scores for user's requirements
  • Detailed Kafka topic design with partition count calculations, key selection strategy, and consumer group scaling patterns with monitoring queries
  • Complete RabbitMQ exchange topology diagram with routing rules, DLQ configuration, and exponential backoff retry policies with code examples
Not designed for ↓
  • ×Basic message queue tutorials or conceptual explanations without production considerations
  • ×Database design or synchronous API architecture patterns
  • ×Frontend real-time features like WebSockets or Server-Sent Events
  • ×Batch processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Hadoop
Expects

Specific messaging requirements including throughput patterns, delivery guarantees, ordering needs, consumer topology, and failure scenarios with existing infrastructure context.

Returns

Detailed architectural design with technology selection rationale, topology diagrams, configuration examples, monitoring setup, and operational runbooks for failure scenarios.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

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Research Foundation: 8 sources (3 books, 4 official docs, 1 industry frameworks)

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Version History

v1.0.02/16/2026

Initial release

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Common Workflows

Event-Driven Microservices Architecture

Complete microservices communication design from API contracts through async messaging to observability

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