HTTP APIs are ideal for message queues with Postgres. The request to get a message returns a token that identifies this receive. You use that token to delete

HTTP APIs are ideal for message queues with Postgres. The request to get a message returns a token that identifies this receive. You use that token to delete the message when you are done. Jobs that don’t succeed after N retries get marked as dead and go into the dead letter list. This the way AWS SQS works, it’s tried and true.