operate a huge network of servers and fiber-optics cables with an efficiency and speed that rocks physics on its heels. This is what makes Google Google: its physical network, its thousands of fiber miles, and those many thousands of servers that, in aggregate, add up to the mother of all clouds.” ▸ - Wired
▸ Simple to Scale ▸ Easy to develop (free to start, local dev env, service abstractions) ▸ Trivial to manage (Fully managed, 24x7 operation by Google SREs) Node.JS Ruby
at a reliable, steady rate. ▸ Pull queues "lease" tasks from the queue on their own initiative ▸ Asynchronously! The application that creates the task is not notified whether or not the task completed, or if it was successful ▸ Retry mechanism ▸ CRON