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River: a Fast, Robust Job Queue for Go + Postgres

Brandur Leach · 20 Nov 2023

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  1. transactions are really just a really good idea. Maybe the best idea in robust service design.
  2. dependency minimization is great. I've written previously about how at work we run a single dependency stack. No ElastiCache, no Redis, no bespoke queueing components, just Postgres. If there's a problem with Postgres, we can fix it.

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