Is Amazon SQS the right choice here? Rails performance issue.

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Published on 2009-05-23T13:04:05Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 14:23 UTC
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I'm close to releasing a rails app with the common networking features (messaging, wall, etc.). I want to use some kind of background processing (most likely Bj) for off-loading tasks from the request/response cycle.

This would happen when users invite friends via email to join and for email notifications.

I'm not sure if I should just drop these invites and notifications in my Database, using a model and then just process it with a worker process every x minutes or if I should go for Amazon SQS, storing the messages and invites there and let my worker retrieve it from Amazon SQS for processing (sending the invites / notifications).

The Amazon approach would get load off my Database but I guess it is slower to retrieve messages from there.

What do you think?

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