linux Archives - The Iron.io Blog https://blog.iron.io/tag/linux/ Scalable serverless application tools to run background tasks with Docker containers and manage messaging queues with cloud elasticity and handheld customer support. Wed, 02 Aug 2023 04:53:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.iron.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cropped-iron-avatar-1-32x32.png linux Archives - The Iron.io Blog https://blog.iron.io/tag/linux/ 32 32 Are Message Queues in Linux Obsolete? https://blog.iron.io/are-message-queues-in-linux-obsolete/ https://blog.iron.io/are-message-queues-in-linux-obsolete/#respond Mon, 07 Jun 2021 08:06:00 +0000 https://blog.iron.io/?p=8387 If you look for information on message queues in Linux, you're likely to come across a mixed bag of information. Some imply they're obsolete, others accuse them of being buggy, others still say they're one of the most underutilized Unix resources. So, what do you believe? If you're thinking about using a message queue in…

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