StarQueue

Infrastructure

message queue

SHOW HN2021

StarQueue

a free hosted HTTP message queue with a Postgres back end

starqueue.org

#message queue#http queue#postgres#sqs alternative

43points
14comments
#941of 2,533 in 2021
Top 38%of 2021 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.

Design: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Congratulations on a public utility launch

    From 2 comments
    • Congratulations on your launch, and for providing a public utility :-) I would love to see metrics on how hard the wild Internet makes your python and PG work, if you wanted to…
      mdaniel on HN
    • This looks really impressive. Congrats on the Launch! Minor nit: On the `div`s with the class name `code`, I see the curl demo is overflowing its contents. It could be fixed by…
      brunojppb on HN

Objections

  • JWT sent as POST param instead of Authorization header

    From 1 comment
    • Congratulations on your launch, and for providing a public utility :-) I would love to see metrics on how hard the wild Internet makes your python and PG work, if you wanted to…
      mdaniel on HN
  • Docs have copy-paste errors in examples

    From 1 comment
    • Congratulations on your launch, and for providing a public utility :-) I would love to see metrics on how hard the wild Internet makes your python and PG work, if you wanted to…
      mdaniel on HN

Requests

  • Add SSE support for receiving messages

    From 2 comments
    • Possible to receive messages using SSE (server-sent events)? I implemented it with a Postgres backend for a project once, but it was not a general solution. SSE provides many…
      tomberek on HN
    • With SSE you don't need to send a new request after you have received data to receive more. SSE also defines a format that allows for pings and the server to define how/when the…
      SahAssar on HN
  • Open source the code

    From 1 comment
    • Hey, nice work on this. Projects like this can be excellent for learning, landing a good job, and trying out new tech. I was surprised to not see a Github link. Are you planning…
      encoderer on HN
  • Publish usage metrics page

    From 1 comment
    • Congratulations on your launch, and for providing a public utility :-) I would love to see metrics on how hard the wild Internet makes your python and PG work, if you wanted to…
      mdaniel on HN

Questions

  • Why is accountId in the URI when present in the JWT

    From 1 comment
    • Congratulations on your launch, and for providing a public utility :-) I would love to see metrics on how hard the wild Internet makes your python and PG work, if you wanted to…
      mdaniel on HN

Alternatives named

  • QutRunk (HTTP queue with RabbitMQ and Mongo backends)

    From 1 comment
    • Hi OP congrats on launching the project, I think we share similar idea, my project is https://qutrunk.com which is basically a queue with Http interface. It comes with multiple…
      piterrro on HN

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