Python Queue Broker Comparison: Kafka vs SQS vs Redis for Background Task Processing

This is an AI updated revision of the original post A stock update endpoint takes 5-14 seconds, blocking customer requests and locking up workers. The obvious fix is a background task queue but which broker and Python client should you use? This post benchmarks Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Redis across reliability, throughput, and [ ] The post Python Queue Broker Comparison: Kafka vs SQS vs Redis…