[loftsy]

Very interesting.

I need a durable queue but not indefinitely. Max a couple of hours.

What I want is Google PubSub but open source so I can self host.

[stackskipton]

Small size, Beanstalkd (https://beanstalkd.github.io/) can get you pretty far.

Larger, RabbitMQ can handle some pretty good workloads.