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How would you design a scalable notification system (email/SMS/push) in Java?

Updated May 6, 2026

Short answer

A notification system uses event-driven architecture with queues, worker services, and provider adapters.

Deep explanation

Events are published to Kafka. Notification service consumes events and routes them to channel-specific processors (email, SMS, push). Retry queues and dead-letter queues handle failures. Template engine generates dynamic messages.

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