Ask HN: How have you used Amazon SQS successfully?

2 pointsby BlueSkies18 anni fa1 comments

After reading up on Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), I have concerns about how to use it effectively. Ordering is not guaranteed and a read from a queue may sometimes show "empty" when in fact there are more entries to process (apparently has to do with how the data is distributed, per their documentation).

I'm interested in how other hackers have been able to make good use of SQS and possibly overcome these issues?

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ropiku18 anni fa

I use it to separate and scale parts of my application.

More specifically I am building a continuous integration application in Ruby and using SQS as build and result queues from which EC2 instances pick up tasks, builds them then add into the result queue. I don't need ordering and don't mind a few seconds of latency.

PS: If you are interested in beta testing it please drop me a line.