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"You don’t want to have to run a message queue just yet, so you want to fake it - write tasks into a database table, and have a long-running daemon loop forever, pulling out rows in order and doing them. Almost as good as a real message queue for small volumes of messages, and a lot cheaper. So what I want is a way of doing this that has the same API as a real message queue, so that when you cut over, you don’t have to change any code" This seems easy enough. Just pick a language that has bindings for messaging and implement a RubbishMQ. The trick is to resist the people who will try to push you into turning it into a real messaging system by filing bug reports - Adewale Oshineye