Comment by allover

> The ENTIRE reason you are using a message queue is to go to some external work.

There are other reasons to use queues besides that, e.g. async communication between two services. This is an example where you could feasibly use a database-backed queue instead. Not saying it's a good or bad idea, depends on the circumstances ofc.

And GPP was only answering a hypothetical and you came out swinging:

> The ENTIRE reason [...] > So this literally makes no sense. > So don't do that.