Yes, I can see where you're coming from. Message queue in the article is more of an abstract service that provides certain guarantees and less of a specific Rab

Yes, I can see where you're coming from. Message queue in the article is more of an abstract service that provides certain guarantees and less of a specific RabbitMQ implementation. There are examples of message queues implementations on top of database--the resulting tradeoffs can be an interesting discussion.