Most Job Queues Are Over-Engineered. Here’s the Proof.
Most job queues are over-engineered for the tasks they actually perform. Zizq is a single-binary, zero-dependency job queue that challenges the assumption that you need distributed infrastructure. Built on LSM-trees and lock-free data structures, it’s fast, durable, and language-agnostic. The real question: have we been scaling for the wrong problem?