Nothing he says is wrong, but I'm not sure why people would be using queues on web requests. Do people really do this? I guess I can see it happening, but... it

Nothing he says is wrong, but I'm not sure why people would be using queues on web requests. Do people really do this? I guess I can see it happening, but... it just doesn't feel right. I use queues to, well, queue up work. Work that doesn't have to be done anywhere close to realtime. Things like background data processing, or in another case where I have up to 10 seconds to process a piece of data that comes in. Something like activemq lets me distribute the work easily, easily monitor the queues to see if any step needs more processing power, and is great for passing around the work.