Comment by brianwawok
9 years ago
> Already have a central, configured and monitored server and need "just a small queue" for something.
Fine. So use SQS or cloud pub sub. Both take 0 "server configuration work", and you aren't adding load to likely the single most expensive part of your infrastructure (RDBMS).
(The exception to where a RDBMS is not the most expensive part of your infastructure is where you have very large data with either nosql something, or a machine learning GPU array.. but not sure that is super relevant here)
That's an entirely valid line of reasoning, but it only applies to a certain set of applications. Further, SQS or whatever have the same drawbacks as other external queues compared to an in-DB queue; see all the sibling comments in this big thread.