What is an MQ and why do I want to use it?

Question

On my team at work, we use the IBM MQ technology a lot for cross-application communication. I\'ve seen lately on Hacker News and other places about other MQ technologies like Ra

Answer 1

MQ simply stands for Message Queue.

You would use one when you need to reliably send a inter-process/cross-platform/cross-application message that isn't time dependent.

The Message Queue receives the message, places it in the proper queue, and waits for the application to retrieve the message when ready.