Like a part of my Erlang study, I decided to code a pure-man queues management service, similar to Amazon SQS – Even Simpler Queue Service (or Erlang SQS you decide ;) ). For now it’s just one file qserver.erl , but i hope to make it better. First I based my code on OTP ( gen_server ), but after this decided to write it from scratch. Lessons learned: access to the processes by name, not by Pid is