Problems / Async and streaming, medium

Payment webhook processor

500 webhooks/s through an at-least-once queue. 0.2% of acknowledgements are lost.

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Your goals

Zero duplicate charges. Hint: look at the worker’s idempotency contract.

The traffic

500 requests a second for 60 seconds: 100% webhook (writes).

The system

What each component does in this design, and what calls it. The simulator mimics each one from these settings.

ComponentIts job hereSettings
Load balancerLoad balancerTraffic enters here.Calls Webhook API.Layer 4 balancers route by IP and port; layer 7 balancers read HTTP and can route by path or header.–
Webhook APIApp serviceLoad balancer forwards to it.Calls Payment queue (publishes).Little's law: throughput ≈ concurrency ÷ latency. 200 slots at 50 ms serve about 4,000 req/s.2 replicas × 100 slots · timeout 1.0 s
Payment queueMessage queueWebhook API publishes to it.Calls Payment worker.If a consumer does not finish within the visibility timeout, the message is delivered again.–
Payment workerWorkerPayment queue consumes from it.Queues deliver at least once, so a worker can see the same message twice.64 concurrent jobs

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