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What happens to the mantra that "database as a queue is harmful"[1]? Of course Amazon teams internally use DynamoDB for all kinds of queues, which implies that we get to do a lot of things easily if we get a super robust storage solution. So, I guess the question is really whether FoundationDB can be used as a backend for queues.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Use+database+as+a+queue+is+h...




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