Dead Letter Queues

As of v0.2.0, Sybline allows for Dead Letter Queues (DLQs).

Dead Letter Queues are a way of moving failing messages/unprocessable messages to another queue to be handled in another manner. If you are interested in learning more about Dead Letter Queues, more information can be found at Wikipedia.

Sybline’s Dead Letter Queues work slightly different to other systems. Dead Letter Queues have the following features:

• DLQs are optional, you don’t have to have one!
• DLQ’s are given the name of their matching queue plus -dlq
  • queue A has DLQ A-dlq
• Queues have a threshold for retries and then the message is moved to the DLQ
  • If you do not have a DLQ the messages are dropped from the queue
• Queues are not coupled
  • If I delete A, queue A-dlq is not deleted
  • You can treat it as a distinct non-DLQ queue
    • To manually put on DLQ you push the data to the DLQ and then Ack on the non-DLQ queue