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Fortunately, this isn’t as difficult as it sounds with modern brokers. Some solutions, like RabbitMQ, natively support the notion of topics which allow you to publish once and have the broker handle the writing to multiple queues. Other solutions, like AWS SQS, have sister services like SNS that can connect to SQS to write to multiple queues as well.
The competitive methodology for storing and subscribing to events is through a persistent event stream, like that seen in Apache Kafka. In this model, events are stored permanently in an ordered list and are never popped off like a queuing system. This means that multiple subscribers can read the same message. It also means that it’s up to subscribers to keep track of which event was the last one they read in. Subscribers can join the stream at different times, reprocess historical events, and generally control their destiny. This can also place more responsibility on each subscriber, making it more difficult for developers to rationalize.