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"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.




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