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System Design Basics: Building Async Notifications with Kafka

A visual, hands-on guide to Kafka. Learn why partitions limit your scaling and how to process async emails/OTPs correctly.

By Raj Sharma
Published January 5, 2026
6 min read
System Design Basics: Building Async Notifications with Kafka

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