Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite
Hi! I wanted to share an open source API-compatible replacement for SQS. It's written in Go, distributes as a single binary, and uses SQLite for underlying storage. I wrote this because I wanted a queue with all the bells and whistles - searching, scheduling into the future, observability, and rate limiting - all the things that many modern task queue systems have. But I didn't want to rewrite my app, which was already using SQS. And I was frustrated that many of the best solutions out there (BullMQ, Oban, Sidekiq) were language-specific. So I made an SQS-compatible replacement. All you have…
Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite launched on June 30, 2024 with 656 votes, #30 of 4,672 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Drop-in SQS replacement is an open-source queue system written in Go that uses SQLite for storage and distributes as a single binary. It provides an API-compatible alternative to AWS SQS, allowing developers to switch endpoints without rewriting applications. The tool adds features like message searching, future scheduling, observability, and rate limiting. It works language-agnostically with existing SQS clients, including Celery, and includes a console for viewing message status.
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From the sources
An improved drop-in replacement for SQS. Contribute to poundifdef/smoothmq development by creating an account on GitHub.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi! I wanted to share an open source API-compatible replacement for SQS. It's written in Go, distributes as a single binary, and uses SQLite for underlying storage. I wrote this because I wanted a queue with all the bells and whistles - searching, scheduling into the future, observability, and rate limiting - all the…
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