Queues aren't the right abstraction

Amazon SQS will be [20 years old](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2004/11/03/introducing-the-amazon-simple-queue-service/) later this year. It still offers precisely what it advertises-a [simple queue service](https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/). It's also still great. During Prime Day 2022, SQS handled [over 70 million messages per second at peak](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-prime-day-2022-aws-for-the-win/). If you want a queue, this, or other time-tested solutions like RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ, work well.

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