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News, releases and articles about @imqueue. Page 6 of 6.
@imqueue/job vs BullMQ: Redis job queues compared
Both are Redis-backed job queues for Node.js. @imqueue/job is small, safe-by-default and scheduling-capable; BullMQ is the feature-rich one. Here's an honest split — plus the thing @imqueue does that BullMQ doesn't.
read →gRPC vs message-queue RPC for internal Node.js services
gRPC is the default answer for typed RPC — and a great one, especially across languages. For an all-Node.js back-end, routing RPC through a queue trades some of gRPC's strengths for a lot less infrastructure.
read →Benchmarking @imqueue: throughput and delivery modes
Real measured throughput for @imqueue's message queue — ~200k msg/sec unreliable, ~120k guaranteed on a 24-core box — what the delivery modes cost, and a reproducible harness to measure the figures that matter: yours.
read →All articles
2026
- @imqueue vs NATS: a framework and a transport are not the same choice
- How Node.js services talk to each other in 2026: the honest options
- One notification, every replica: the LISTEN/NOTIFY duplicate problem
- Graceful shutdown and zero-drop deploys
- Delayed and scheduled work without adding a job system
- Auto-scaling Redis broker: with and without broadcast
- One isolated imq CLI home per @imqueue project
- RPC over Redis in Node.js: patterns and pitfalls
- BullMQ alternatives for Node.js: an honest 2026 guide
- RPC between Node.js microservices over a message queue
- Type-safe service-to-service communication in TypeScript
- Stop hand-writing and maintaining your microservice clients
- Load balancing microservices without a load balancer
- Do your Node.js back-ends really need service discovery?
- Back-pressure for Node.js services
- Guaranteed message delivery: cost and when to use it
- Cutting the boilerplate out of Node.js microservices
- Versioning microservices without breaking every caller
- Testing services that call each other
- Internal APIs don't need to be REST
- From monolith to services: a low-risk first extraction
- Redis as a message bus: patterns beyond pub/sub
- @imqueue vs Moleculer: two takes on Node.js microservices
- @imqueue vs NestJS microservices: framework vs transport
- tRPC vs @imqueue: client–server types vs service–service RPC
- @imqueue/job vs BullMQ: Redis job queues compared
- gRPC vs message-queue RPC for internal Node.js services
- Benchmarking @imqueue: throughput and delivery modes