This is an AI updated revision of the original post A stock update endpoint takes 5-14 seconds, blocking customer requests and locking up workers. The obvious fix is a background task queue – but which broker and Python client should you use? This post benchmarks Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Redis across reliability, throughput, and […]
Category: task queues
An interesting question has come up for a real world task. What queue and python queue client should be used? In this post, a few queue options will be tried in the attempt to answer which one should be used. The Problem The real world problem is currently a single api is used to serve […]