Replacing Amazon SQS with something faster and cheaper – 🌀 variogram by Brian WhitmanDid you know that SQS costs a dollar per million messages? That’s sent or received, so really it’s 2 bucks a million. Another thing with SQS: it’s slow. Even with 200 connections adding 10K messages takes minutes. [Actual #: 10000 100 byte strings from an EC2 instance takes 200 seconds.] So I played with RabbitMQ. Phil J told me about it. Normally when he says something I just do it, but this time
