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by throwaway2016a 3103 days ago
Clearly a lot of thought and work has been put into this and I give the authors credit for that.

I appreciate any entry into the space but this is a really crowded space. With some very battle tested entries in the field as people have pointed out.

There are a few questions not in the readme that I think need answering for a queue system:

- Execution guarantees (at least once, at most once, exactly once?)

- Order guarantees (FIFO, approximately FIFO, nondeturministic, etc)

- Throughput compared to other systems

- Fault tolerance characteristics, how many nodes can I lose before it stops working, when it does how do I recover

As I said, I have a lot of choices in this field. I'd like to see all the data up front.

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Agreed, there are a lot of more robust products already in this space.

My biggest concern is its reliance on mysql. There is no way this could be a valid option for high volume messaging when it is essentially database as a queue.