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# Event driven Microservices using Kafka and Rust

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 15 min read · 43 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

Learn how to build event-driven microservices using Kafka and Rust. Discover the advantages of event-driven architecture and how to handle challenges like out-of-order messages.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/04/25/event-driven-services-using-kafka-rust>

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**@natedata** · 2 upvotes

> We're just writing our article at work and this made me do a double take. We are using Rust with Kafka to send MySQL bin-log events form a legacy application to our new service. This is much more performant than a cronjob just polling the database. Lovely article.

**@joshuamo** · 1 upvotes

> Hey Denis - thanks for reposting my article!!

**@devxent** · 1 upvotes

> Website looks amazing! How was it made?

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Tags: [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/kafka), [#change-data-capture](https://daily.dev/tags/change-data-capture)

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