On: Cloudflare Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT Message Brok...

[manigandham]

AWS has several "pub/sub" like services: SNS, IoT MQTT, Managed Kafka, Kinesis, EventBridge, etc.

[VectorLock → manigandham]

And they're all kinda fucky, like SNS handles a lot but you can't write a program to receive events.

[manigandham → VectorLock]

What do you mean by "receive events"? SNS can deliver to any HTTP endpoint.

[VectorLock → manigandham]

Then you have to go through the whole process of setting up, routing, and registering an HTTP endpoint, rather than you would as a normal pub/sub simply have the program connect to the publisher and start receiving messages/events.

[manigandham → VectorLock]

Pub/sub is an architectural model so there's no real "normal" implementation, but SQS is the answer for that.

SNS is the router, SQS is the storage (for more advanced push/pull consuming).

[sieabahlpark → manigandham]

People are butt hurt that SNS doesn't allow the "subscribe" portion. A webhook is a push action.

They forget SQS exists...