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Comment by GordonS

1 year ago

Does SmoothMQ support running multiple nodes for high availability? (I didn't see anything in the docs, but they seem unfinished)

Not today. It's a work in progress! There are several iterations that I'm working on:

1. Primary with secondaries as replicas (replication for availability) 2. Sharding across multiple nodes (sharding for horizontal scaling) 3. Sharding with replication

However, those aren't ready yet. The easiest way to implement this would probably be to use Postgres as the backing storage for the queue, which means relying on Postgres' multiple node support. Then the queue server itself could also scale up and down independently.

Working on the docs! I'd love your feedback - what makes them seem unfinished? (What would you want to see that would make them feel more complete?)