6 articles tagged with ""sqs""
Your SQS queue has 47,000 messages stuck in a loop, retrying forever, and you have no idea why. After running serverless e-commerce backends on AWS, here's everything I wish I'd known about SQS, visibility timeouts, and the DLQ that saves your sanity!
Your Lambda crashed mid-order. Your server rebooted at 3 AM. Your API timed out. Without SQS, that message is GONE forever. Here's how I stopped losing customer orders in production.
I once lost 2,400 order messages in production. Not hacked. Not a DDoS. Just SQS silently swallowing them. Here's everything I learned about Dead Letter Queues, visibility timeouts, and building bulletproof message queues!
I once built a 'message queue' using a DynamoDB table, a cron job, and a lot of prayers. It worked until it didn't. Then I discovered SQS and felt both relieved and deeply embarrassed. Here's everything you need to know to stop reinventing the queue.
I once lost 40,000 order events because a Lambda bug silently ate messages until the queue was empty. SQS Dead Letter Queues would have saved me. Don't be me.
Your SQS messages are silently dying and you don't even know it. Dead Letter Queues are the safety net every serverless app needs - and setting them up takes 10 minutes.