Written by Khushi Patel
What Is a Message Queue? Imagine a busy café during lunch time. Many customers place orders at once, but the café has only four chefs. If the cashier had to wait for a chef to finish every order before accepting the next one, the line would move very slowly. Instead, the cashier writes each order on a ticket and puts it on a rack. The chefs pick up tickets when they are ready to cook. The cashier can keep accepting orders while the chefs work through the queue. That ticket rack is like a ...