How to use Google Pub/Sub to build an asynchronous messaging system in Python

Learn a simple but powerful Cloud Pub/Sub system

Lynn G. Kwong
Level Up Coding
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9 min readJan 13, 2022

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The Pub/Sub (Publisher/Subscriber) service on the Google Cloud Platform is a modern asynchronous messaging system. It’s similar to the open-source counterpart Apache Kafka but is much simpler to use. Pub/Sub is part of the GCP ecosystem and is thus very convenient to use with other services. You can use Pub/Sub to integrate your applications with Cloud Function, Dataflow, Bigtable, Cloud Storage, etc. Besides, Pub/Sub…

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