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by moe 4137 days ago
I'm not building a message queue

That may be the kernel of the problem here; you built a subset of a message queue without realising it.

RabbitMQ has a websocket plugin[1]. Just make your javascript connect directly to a RabbitMQ cluster and you have a solid, scalable foundation - almost for free.

[1] http://www.rabbitmq.com/blog/2012/05/14/introducing-rabbitmq...