[LRUG] Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

[Garry Shutler]

Nice tip Fred, thanks.

I had a look and Shoryuken doesn't support it at the gem level, there's
some issues going into why (#30
<https://github.com/phstc/shoryuken/issues/30>, #92
<https://github.com/phstc/shoryuken/issues/92>).

*Garry Shutler*
@gshutler <http://twitter.com/gshutler>
gshutler.com

On 29 May 2015 at 11:40, Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung at gmail.com>
wrote:

> SQS largely takes care of itself. One issue I’ve run into with SQS is that
> in its default mode reading messages from a nearly empty queue may return
> no messages (the reason being that the queue is distributed across many
> machines and reads by default will hit a single partition in the queue, if
> that one has no messages then the api call will return no message).
>
> You can address this by using the long polling mode - calls to read a
> message will block up to a configurable limit (upto 20s) before either
> returning no message or a message that has arrived in the wait period and
> this mode doesn’t suffer from the limitation I describe. This can either be
> configured as a setting on the queue or passed as a parameter to individual
> api calls. If Shoryuken doesn’t support the latter then you might want to
> set this as a global queue property.
>
> Fred
>
> On 29 May 2015 at 11:31:30, Garry Shutler (garry at robustsoftware.co.uk)
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking into moving our messaging from Resque to SQS
> <http://aws.amazon.com/sqs/>.
>
> I'm looking at using Shoryuken <https://github.com/phstc/shoryuken> as it
> seems to be the most mature gem, follows the patterns of Sidekiq, and
> supports ActiveJob which means we'll be able to switch in Resque/Sidekiq
> for development as there's no way to run SQS locally.
>
> Do any of you have any "from the trenches" experience you can share around
> SQS and/or Shoryuken? In particular I've not found much useful stuff on
> monitoring and administering the queues themselves.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Garry
>
>  *Garry Shutler*
> @gshutler <http://twitter.com/gshutler>
> gshutler.com
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