Or I can use a hosted queue service and not have to worry about it at all. The less I have to worry/configure/optimize, the less room for mistakes, and the mor

Or I can use a hosted queue service and not have to worry about it at all. The less I have to worry/configure/optimize, the less room for mistakes, and the more operationally solid my system will be. My point isn’t that Postgres can’t do it. It can. But it just requires so much more effort to get it right. And this article glosses over so many critically important details about doing these things at scale in production environments. Most of them are things I don’t have to worry about when using a real queue service.