[bilinguliar]

I am using Beanstalkd, it is small and fast and you just apt-get it on Debian.

However, I have noticed that oftentimes devs are using queues where Workflow Engines would be a better fit.

If your message processing time is in tens of seconds – talk to your local Workflow Engine professional (:

[janstice]

In that case, any suggestions if the answer was looking for workflow engines? Ideally something that will work for no-person-in-the-middle workloads in the tens of seconds range as well as person-making-a-decision workflows that can live for anywhere between minutes and months?

[bilinguliar]

Temporal if you do not want vendor locks.

AWS Step Functions or GCP Workflows if you are on the cloud.

[dkh]

A classic. Not something I personally use these days, but I think just as a piece of software it is an eternally good example of something simple, powerful, well-engineered, pleasant to use, and widely-compatible, all at the same time