dotnet-messaging-patterns

Durable messaging patterns for .NET event-driven architectures. Covers publish/subscribe, competing consumers, dead-letter queues, saga/process manager orchestration, and delivery guarantee strategies using Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, and MassTransit.

Scope

• Publish/subscribe and competing consumer patterns
• Dead-letter queues and poison message handling
• Saga/process manager orchestration
• Delivery guarantee strategies (at-least-once, exactly-once)
• Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, and MassTransit integration

Out of scope

• Background service lifecycle and IHostedService registration -- see [skill:dotnet-background-services]
• Resilience pipelines and retry policies -- see [skill:dotnet-resilience]
• JSON/binary serialization configuration -- see [skill:dotnet-serialization]
• In-process producer/consumer queues with Channel -- see [skill:dotnet-channels]