Scalable Messaging for Real-time AI Analytics with AWS SQS

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Scalable messaging is crucial for real-time AI analytics as it enables asynchronous communication between different components of an application. Amazon Simple Queue Service (AWS SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that allows you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

In the context of real-time AI analytics, you might use SQS to queue data for processing by an analytics engine, or to balance loads between processing tasks. With SQS, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components without losing messages and without requiring other services to be available.

Below is a Pulumi program that demonstrates how to create an AWS SQS queue, which can be used for scalable messaging in real-time AI analytics. This program uses `aws.sqs.Queue`, a resource which provides a message queue that can be used to transmit any volume of data, at any level of throughput, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available.

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

# Define an AWS SQS Queue
queue = aws.sqs.Queue("aiAnalyticsQueue",
    # FIFI (First-In-First-Out) queues enhance messaging between services.
    # Setting this attribute to True creates a FIFO queue.
    fifo_queue=True,
    # Content-based deduplication allows SQS to use a SHA-256 hash to generate the message deduplication ID using the body of the message. 
    content_based_deduplication=True,
    # The delay in seconds the delivery of all messages in the queue will be delayed.
    delay_seconds=0,
    # The length of time, in seconds, for which the delivery of all messages in the queue is delayed.
    message_retention_seconds=86400,
    # The limit of how many bytes a message can contain before Amazon SQS rejects it.
    max_message_size=262144,
    # Receive message wait time is the length of time, in seconds, for which a ReceiveMessage action waits for a message to arrive.
    receive_wait_time_seconds=10,
    # Redrive policy for the SQS queue specifies the dead-letter queue to which Amazon SQS moves messages that the consumer fails to process successfully.
    redrive_policy=queue_dead_letter_policy,
    # Queue tags provide metadata to help manage the queue.
    tags={
        "Environment": "Production",
        "Purpose": "RealTimeAIAanalyticsMessaging",
    }
)

# Define a Dead Letter Queue to capture messages that could not be processed successfully.
dead_letter_queue = aws.sqs.Queue("aiAnalyticsDeadLetterQueue",
    fifo_queue=True,
)

# Create a dead-letter queue policy
queue_dead_letter_policy = pulumi.Output.all(dead_letter_queue.name, dead_letter_queue.arn).apply(lambda args: json.dumps({
    "maxReceiveCount": 5,  # Number of times a message is delivered to the source queue before being sent to the dead-letter queue.
    "deadLetterTargetArn": args[1]  # The dead-letter queue to which Amazon SQS moves messages that can’t be processed successfully.
}))

# Final exports
pulumi.export("ai_analytics_queue_url", queue.id)     # Export the URL of the main AI analytics queue
pulumi.export("dead_letter_queue_url", dead_letter_queue.id)  # Export the URL of the dead-letter queue

```

In this program, we started by importing `pulumi_aws`. Then, we created two queues, one for the primary message processing (`aiAnalyticsQueue`) and another for dead letter messages (`aiAnalyticsDeadLetterQueue`). The primary queue is configured as a FIFO queue with deduplication and other properties to manage message retention and delivery delay tailored for real-time AI analytics requirements.

A dead-letter queue (DLQ) is created to handle messages that cannot be processed (failed messages). Setting up a DLQ is a best practice to ensure that message processing can be retried, or unprocessable messages can be analyzed later without affecting the real-time processing of new messages.

At the end of the script, `pulumi.export` is used to output the URLs of both the primary and dead-letter queues, which you can use to configure your applications or services that produce or consume messages.