Stream Basics

This section explains basic concepts related to Macrometa streams.

📄️ Messages

Messages are the basic unit of Macrometa streams. Producers publish messages to streams, and consumers process the message and send and acknowledgment.

📄️ Message Queues

A message queue automatically balances loads across all consumers for a given stream. Best practice is to use multiple consumers.

📄️ Producers

A producer is an application or process that publishes messages to the stream. Once published, they can be processed with stream workers.

📄️ Consumers

A consumer is an application that subscribes to a stream and then receives messages published by producers.

🗃️ Subscriptions

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