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When the Message Broker Becomes the Bottleneck: Scaling Push and SMS With MongoDB Polling
A back-end team extracted notification delivery from a large Ruby monolith into a centralized Go service, only to discover that their shared RabbitMQ cluster could not reliably support the new workload. Hereβs how they solved the problem using MongoDB as a polling queue and the trade-offs that came with it. The Scaling Problem Inside the [β¦]
Jul 24, 2026 Β· 3 min