Burlesque – A message queue server in Go with an HTTP API

I don't know anything about this project, but Redis is not a message queueing system. It kind of baffles me why people insist on using it as such when there are plenty of systems out there designed with real pub/sub delivery semantics. In the Go ecosystem I really like NSQ (http://nsq.io).

Redis can behave as a message queue, but it is somehow more complex than a blocking pop. antirez wrote a nice article[1] about it, and I believe RestMQ[2] uses this approach.

[1] http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/250

[2] http://restmq.com/

This server was built for a specific purpose: storing huge amounts of critical delayed job descriptions. Publishing and retrieving jobs is done via HTTP as it's the easiest transport protocol for most stacks. KyotoCabinet database is chosen for its capabilities to tune the speed and the size of the storage depending on the nature of its data and the flow of the app.