Feature Request : Priority Queues

[Terebi42]

It would be very valuable if you could queue items into queues with a priority, and have items pulled from the queue in priority order for processing by jobs.

I currently work around this by having multiple queues, with multiple jobs, but this means that multiple jobs are running simultaneously, which in some cases is not scalable due to resource constraints.

[ejsmith]

That's really not possible with pretty much any queuing system. You end up having to do exactly what you are doing. Routing the messages to a dedicated high priority queue.

[Terebi42]

Would it be possible to give a job a list of queues (of the same type), so that it tried to pop off each of them, but only one would be able to get processed at any given time (because there is only one job task running)

[niemyjski]

Sorry for the delayed response, can you please elaborate more. Currently we do priority queues using di with keyed services and configuration. I'm not sure how you would do this any other way other than maybe using broker based routing if it was even supported? We haven't found any better way than this.