News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough.

Re:Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough by artem_dev on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:06PM (#36187872)
DigitalOcean had a nice blog post on this "From 15,000 database connections to under 100: DigitalOcean's tale of tech debt" https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/from-15-000-database-conne... they used MySQL as a message queue and migrated from it.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough by hu3 on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:35PM (#36190938)
> ...it was simple and it worked – especially for a short-staffed technical team facing tight deadlines and a rapidly increasing user base.

> For four years, the database message queue formed the backbone of DigitalOcean’s technology stack.

The lesson I got from that article is that a database messaging system got them very far and was simple.

[ Parent | on HN ]