Message queue
A component that holds messages between a producer and a consumer, letting them operate independently and enabling reliable, asynchronous processing.
In more detail
A message queue sits between a system that produces work and one that consumes it, holding messages until the consumer is ready. This decouples the two: the producer can keep emitting work during a burst without waiting, and the consumer processes at its own pace, so a spike in one place does not overwhelm the other.
Queues are foundational to reliable asynchronous processing. They absorb bursts, smooth uneven load, and let a failed message be retried or moved to a dead letter queue rather than lost. Much of what makes large-scale automation dependable is built on this simple idea of buffering work between independent components.
Where this shows up at Ceven
The reliability properties a message queue provides, absorbing bursts, retrying failures, not losing work, are the kind of guarantees Ceven's orchestration handles internally so a workflow keeps running smoothly under uneven load. The customer sees a workflow that completes reliably; the queuing that makes that possible is part of the platform underneath.