Built on Amazon’s reliable and scalable queue service, Connections to SQS are opened lazily negating any initial load time, Multiple queues can be used simultaneously, Doesn’t poll the database, Rails ActiveRecord objects maintain state through the queue, Built-in retry mechanism.
Uses
FIFO is extracted from the Mine (http://getmine.com) codebase. Here are some of the things we use it for:
Sending emails, Processing images, Indexing, Sharing to social networks, Cache management, Launching cron jobs, Communication between disjoint parts of a complex application (cron, web, processing servers)
Everyone has an interesting story to tell and our world ought to celebrate normal people more than it does. Storylane is a brilliant combination of the two. Love it
Perhaps, we should wait for Yelp to give their side of the story before hanging them a-priori. Perhaps a runaway sales account exec couldn't meet his/her targets and got cheeky.