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>>mpweih+(OP)
Author of https://node-ts.github.io/bus/ here. SQS is definitely one of my most favourite message queues. The ability to have a HA managed solution without having to worry about persistence, scaling or connections is huge.

Most of the complaints are native to message based systems in general. At least once message receives, out of order receives, pretty standard faire that can be handled by applying well established patterns.

My only request would be to please increase the limits of message visibility timeouts! Often I want to delay send a message for receipt in 30 days. SQS forces me to cook some weird delete and resend recipe, or make this a responsibility of a data store. It's be really nice to do away with batch/Cron jobs and deal more with delayed queue events.

>>redact+Gb
RE: visibility timeout beyond 30 days, you may be more after a “saga” that has state and is long running (hours/days/months/years).

You can imagine building a saga system on top of a queue system.

>>plasma+Ub
You're absolutely right, in fact I have a whole package that is just that https://node-ts.github.io/bus/packages/bus-workflow/.

The problem is this. Let's say that I want to trigger a step in a "free trial" saga that sends an email to the customer 10 days after they sign up nudging them to get a paid account. If I can delay send this message for 10 days then it's easy.

However because SQS has a much shorter visibility timeout, I have to find a much more roundabout way of triggering that action.