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System Design Pick a Queue

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# Claude Code System Design Prompt — Pick the Right Queue

A staff-level system design prompt for Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding assistants — choose between Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or a DB-backed queue.

**Use it when:** When you need async processing and have to choose between Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, or a DB-backed queue.

**Why it works:** Queue choices get litigated forever. Forcing a per-option fit score and a single recommendation cuts the bikeshedding.

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when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo sublimecoder/sublimecoding (MIT). A "System Design Pick a Queue" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.