Working With Queues

Queues are a powerful tool for building reliable systems. In this article, I’ll describe some of the tips and tricks I came across when working with queues.

Some of the advice is specific to Amazon SQS queues because that’s what I’ve been using the most lately. And also because some of them come from [this amazing article][1] from the [Amazon Builders’ Library][2].

SQS Consumer Using Kotlin Coroutines

Today we’ll see how to write a SQS consumer that processes messages in a parallel, non-blocking way, using Kotlin coroutines.