Thank you for this post Janet.

I think my technical perspectives have moved in a similar direction: keep things extremely simple with minimum moving parts.

I maintained (automated upgrades) a RabbitMQ cluster and while it is powerful software it is operationally expensive. For a side project you probably just batch process in a cron.

If I were to take the approach in this blog post I would want everyone on the team to be extremely familiar with the model of task running: stuck jobs, timeouts, duplicate jobs, client disconnects and retries, stuck "poison" jobs seem like issues you might face.