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Re:SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a... by nicoburns on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:05AM (#35537743)
There are libraries that implement queueing on top of databases that require very little setup by the user. For example https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
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Re:SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a... by scrollaway on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:06AM (#35539871)
I’ve had a positive experience with Procrastinate.

https://procrastinate.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

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Re:SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a... by valenterry on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:39PM (#35550199)
Right. However, please don't forget that there are very often inherit limitations regarding scaling or availability and also that many fully fledged message queues come with a lot of perks like access management and administration / debugging tooling and interfaces.

I'm not saying that libraries like pg-boss and co. cannot sometimes replace a full queue implementation. But the tradeoffs need to be clear.

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