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		queuesaredbs on June 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Celery – Best Practices bad idea to use the DB as a queue Not according to Jim Gray. See "THESIS: Queues are Databases"[1][2] 1- http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6849... 2- (pdf) http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/69641/tr-95-56.pdf

denibertovic on June 19, 2014 [–]

Tnx for the link. nice read. There is a difference though, in using something as "a Queue" and using something as an AMQP implementation when it's clearly not that.

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