Sandglass

Sandglass is a distributed, horizontally scalable, persistent, time-ordered message queue. It was developed to support asynchronous tasks and message scheduling which makes it suitable for usage as a task queue. This is a prototype of a side project. This should not be used in production in its current form as things may change quickly without notice. As previously asked (#4), the purpose of this project might not seem clear. In short, there is two goals. The first is to be able to track each message individually (i.e. not using a single commit offset) to make it suitable for asynchronous tasks. The second is the ability to schedule messages to be consumed in the future. This makes it suitable for retries.