For various side projects I’ve worked on, I’ve wanted to introduce event queues in order to simplify some things. Normally, I just go with the “one DB to rule them all”, and shove things into Postgres. Sometimes though, the workload becomes too much and the burst- and credit balance of my puny RDS instances start looking like ski slopes that would kill most skiers. Every time this has happened I’ve looked into hosting or renting actual event queuing systems, but never found anything...| Michael Bang's blog
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