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Thanks for the guide, as others have said this is good introductory reading for new engineers. I know I really only learned about dedicated message queues 1-2 years into my career and felt really dumb for not having known/thought about message queuing before.

One thing you might consider adding are more examples for different popular queuing systems and how they differ from one another. The software I always reach for is nsq (https://nsq.io/) because it's meant to run co-located with the message producers and readers are supposed to connect to multiple instances where the messages are produced (using a lookup daemon). This is quite different from the queues on your list, so much so that I'd consider adding it just because it works so differently.




Will add NSQ notes. Researched it once for distributed web socket pub sub, did find it pretty interesting.


Added NSQ notes.




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