drTriumph

I've seen this before but it never hurts to re-read

It uses the Node Firebase client: https://www.npmjs.com/package/firebase

This is not a hosted solution - you will have to run your own server still with Firebase Queue

The biggest advantage would be that you can have multiple server processes listening for requests on the same path and know that only one will be processing it at any point in time. That way your process is no longer a single point if failure.

By specifying a timeout on a task spec or not you can specify whether a task is tried at least once or at most once.

Hi HN, I'm the lead engineer on Firebase Queue. I think it will make processing background tasks in Firebase much easier, and we're already using it for some projects internally. I'd love to hear what you think when you try it out!

Hi HN, I'm the lead developer on Firebase Hosting and the post’s author. We're trying to build something that's both simple to use and a serious production grade product. We think we're pretty close to the mark but we'd love to hear how we can improve it. Let us know in the comments (or email me at chris@firebase.com).