> ...it was simple and it worked – especially for a short-staffed technical team facing tight deadlines and a rapidly increasing user base. > For four years, t

> ...it was simple and it worked – especially for a short-staffed technical team facing tight deadlines and a rapidly increasing user base. > For four years, the database message queue formed the backbone of DigitalOcean’s technology stack. The lesson I got from that article is that a database messaging system got them very far and was simple.