> you should build your application to account for the queue being down Maybe. but the whole idea is that the queuing infrastructure is intrinsically more reli

> you should build your application to account for the queue being down Maybe. but the whole idea is that the queuing infrastructure is intrinsically more reliable than the rest of the system. So while you may design for it, you can do so with different thresholds for severity of what the conseqeunces might be.