We already discussed about Queue management solutions in the past, and I am always happy to write about it. Queue managers are not easy to implement, and there is a reson if IBM MQ Series is still a successful product. Some month ago, a big bank customer asked me to provide a small queue implementation to increase asynchronous internal processing of our payment solution.

The project had very strong contraints: I could not use existing queue system because they were not yet available, and I need to be able to provide microservice parallelism in a cloud-environent.

I have very little time to provide a solid solution, and re-inventing the wheel was not an option. Performance was important, but we plan to have a managable numbers of transactions per seconds, far behind modern cloud database capacity.

Challenge accepted.

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I want to share with you two tools I use a lot on some situation, where I need to write short manuals for co-worker or end-customers.

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Anubis

Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawler

LLM web spiders are creating troubles to tiny website, because they seems to ignore robots.txt directive and scrape all the website at the bild search of information to ingest.

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