I can definitely say that RabbitMQ (and the awesome bunny ruby library) is doing the heavy lifting. Batch handling - is actually "prefetch" in RabbitMQ/AMQP. E

I can definitely say that RabbitMQ (and the awesome bunny ruby library) is doing the heavy lifting. Batch handling - is actually "prefetch" in RabbitMQ/AMQP. Error reporting - via logging, and a "dead letter mailbox" (called a dead-letter-exchange in RabbitMQ) which is a great enterprise integration pattern for properly handling errors and retries in jobs. RabbitMQ does the heavy lifting in another surprising facet - the UI. The management UI is excellent and at some point in time I decided not to compete with it by creating my own UI (you have to pick your fights :). Here's some more info about the management plugin for RabbitMQ. http://www.rabbitmq.com/management.html http://www.rabbitmq.com/management.html