poundifdef/smoothmq

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2286 stars · 52 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

SmoothMQ is a drop-in replacement for Amazon SQS that runs as a single Go binary on any cloud or self-hosted environment. It works with any existing SQS client and adds a management UI, observability, tracing, message scheduling, and rate-limiting.

Use cases

• run a private SQS-compatible message queue on my own infrastructure
• replace SQS in development without changing application code
• search and inspect individual messages in a queue via a UI
• schedule delayed messages in an SQS-compatible queue
• rate-limit message consumption per queue
• use Celery or boto3 with a self-hosted SQS endpoint

When to choose

• you want SQS API compatibility without AWS dependency or cost
• you need queue observability, tracing, and a management dashboard
• you want a simple single-binary deployment for local dev or private cloud
• your existing SQS clients (boto3, Celery, any SDK) should work unchanged

When to avoid

• you need full SQS feature parity such as FIFO queues with all guarantees
• you require a managed, highly available multi-node queue at massive scale
• AGPL-3.0 licensing is incompatible with your usage
• you need non-SQS protocols like AMQP or Kafka

Facets

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message-queue monitoring tracing rate-limiting scheduling self-hosted developer-tools self-hosted infrastructure-as-code windows self-hosted go cli sqs-compatible drop-in-replacement queue-management single-binary message-search messaging linux macos docker

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