Fan out write and fan out read are two mutually exclusive architectural choices for building activity feeds. An activity feed has someone writing a post which is going to go to one or many other users.
Where We Implemented Fanout Write
- Home (Feed)
- Activity (Notification) Centre
We’ll discuss more on advantages and disadvantages of this approach.
Read more about our engineering related to this, here : graph db, messaging broker, XMPP and chatbot.