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A short criticism of Amazon SQS

http://abeautifulview2011.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/a-short-criticism-of-amazon-sqs/

by qusiba • 15 years ago

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dlsspy• 15 years ago

I looked at the API for SQS a long time ago after writing this:

http://www.rockstarprogrammer.org/post/2008/oct/04/what-matt...

I really felt like I must be missing something. This made no sense to me. The linked article suggests the author is also missing something, or Amazon just did it wrong. I don't know where I'd actually use SQS.

Udo• 15 years ago

I'm glad I'm not alone in making this observation. From where I stand, it sure seems like your could build a functional equivalent (or better) by just using a database table for the queue and be done with it.

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