System design hack: Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
layerci.com/blog/postgres-is-the-answer
What Jamie wrote
This falls into the category of using boring, proven technology to solve a critical, behind-the-scenes task. I don't think many teams would come up with this answer when faced with this need, but probably more should.
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