Build applications of any size on Cloudflare with the Queues open beta

Cloudflare has launched an open beta of its new service, Cloudflare Queues, which aims to bring message queues to every developer building applications for Earth's regions. This innovative service follows other offerings like Cloudflare Workers and R2, enabling developers to build more complex applications without worrying about network configuration, region selection or capacity estimation. Unlike many other services, there are no significant egress charges associated with using Cloudflare Queues. Message queues are a fundamental building block of cloud applications, allowing for decoupling of application components and better management of batching and buffering calls to downstream services and APIs. They also enable easier reasoning about deployments, implementation, and feature shipping without worrying about synchronizing complex deployments. To get started with Cloudflare Queues, developers need to enroll in the open beta by navigating to the Workers section of their Cloudflare dashboard, selecting Queues from the navigation menu, enabling the Queues Beta, reviewing and completing the purchase details. Once enrolled, users can create a queue, manage it using Wrangler (CLI for Cloudflare Workers), and build applications that integrate Workers, Queues, and R2. The open beta roadmap includes ambitious goals such as supporting unlimited throughput while maintaining 100% durability, first-in first-out (FIFO) message processing, and API compatibility layers to ease migrations. Feedback from users will help shape the Queues roadmap as they continue to develop application integration services for the next generation cloud.