I haven't tested a lot of queues but one solution that i played with recently and liked is zookeeper. It is distributed, battle tested and has a small simple A

I haven't tested a lot of queues but one solution that i played with recently and liked is zookeeper. It is distributed, battle tested and has a small simple API. You can build some good distributed data structures(like queues for example) on top of it with minimal work. For python examples - http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/05/building-a-distributed-concurrent-queue-with-apache-zookeeper/ http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/05/building-a-distributed-... and http://github.com/twitter/twitcher http://github.com/twitter/twitcher