Message Queues
Vanity Fair Queues
Polite society, back pressure, and the hazards of unbounded ambition
No queue is truly genteel until it has learned to refuse callers.
Thackeray conducts the reader through the bustling fairground of asynchronous architecture, where every message hopes for advancement and every consumer has limited social capacity. Covering durable queues, retry policies, dead-letter exchanges, ordering guarantees, and back pressure, this volume explains how to keep work moving without allowing the entire establishment to collapse from enthusiasm.
Contents
- A Queue Without a Hero
- Dead Letters and Other Social Embarrassments
- The Proper Management of Retries
- Back Pressure at Lord Steyne's Dinner
Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.
This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.
