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Re:The most important thing to understand about queues (2016) by treis on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:43AM (#30601107)
The joke I like is:

You have a problem so you implement a queue. Now you have two problems.

It succiently illustrates the problem because you should build your application to account for the queue being down. So you still have your original problem of what do I do if I can't process everything I need to.

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Re:The most important thing to understand about queues (2016) by zmmmmm on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:27PM (#30608809)
> you should build your application to account for the queue being down

Maybe. but the whole idea is that the queuing infrastructure is intrinsically more reliable than the rest of the system. So while you may design for it, you can do so with different thresholds for severity of what the conseqeunces might be.

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