Comment by paulddraper

3 years ago

"Toy/low throughput" = "Toy or low throughout"

Can you define "low throughput"? I think people have significantly different ideas of what that means.

  • > Can you define "low throughput"?

    IDK maybe <1000 messages per minute

    Not saying SKIP LOCKED can't work with that many. But you'll probably want to do something with lower overhead.

    FWIW, Que uses advisory locks [1]

    [1] https://github.com/que-rb/que

  • Yeah I think people generally reach for “big” tools when this “toy” would work fine for the vast majority of projects.