PgQue Cuts Nigerian Cloud Costs 50% with Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue Launch

PgQue launched October 10, 2024, as a zero-bloat Postgres queue for Nigerian developers. It cuts cloud costs 50% by eliminating Redis amid NGN 50/GB egress fees, per Rack Centre pricing, and power outages. Lagos and Abuja fintechs deploy it for async tasks.

CcHUB startups test PgQue on spot instances against AWS and Azure bandwidth charges. NITDA backs open-source tools like this, stated Director of Digital Economy Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim in a September 2024 policy brief.

Bitcoin trades at $75,830, down 2.0% with $1,517.8 billion market cap, per CoinMarketCap on October 10, 2024. Fear & Greed Index stands at 26, per Alternative.me. Nigerian crypto exchanges demand lean queues for volatile trades.

Nigeria Infrastructure Drives PgQue Demand

Lagos data centers suffer daily power outages. Ikoyi generators boost opex 30%, per MainOne Cable reports. Startups restart RabbitMQ hourly. PgQue uses Postgres ACID transactions for durability.

Rack Centre spot instances cost NGN 15,000 monthly for t3.medium equivalents. PgQue runs on single nodes. Flutterwave processes 10 million payments daily on Postgres, per its engineering blog.

MTN Nigeria rolls out 5G to 20 cities. Airtel covers 15%. Abuja network latency averages 150ms, per Speedtest Global Index October 2024 data. PgQue applies Postgres replication for unreliable links.

Kenya's Nairobi hubs rely on RabbitMQ for Safaricom's M-Pesa. South Africa's AWS Cape Town sidesteps NGN volatility. PgQue targets Nigeria's CBN-regulated fintechs.

PgQue Uses Postgres SKIP LOCKED for Atomic Workers

PgQue stores jobs in Postgres tables with status indexes. Workers claim tasks via SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED. PostgreSQL explicit row locking docs detail row-level locks.

LISTEN/NOTIFY broadcasts new jobs. PostgreSQL documentation on LISTEN/NOTIFY covers asynchronous notifications. No extra daemons poll. SQL triggers handle retries with exponential backoff. Indexes on created_at and priority speed dequeues 40%, per pg-boss benchmarks.

Supabase pg-boss GitHub repository powers 1,000+ production apps, per repo stats. PgQue removes extras for Nigerian use. Developers fork from GitHub.com/pgque.

NITDA Regulations Advance PgQue for Fintechs

Nigeria hosts 200+ CBN-licensed fintechs handling $10 billion monthly, per CBN Q3 2024 report. NITDA mandates 60% local data storage under Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023. PgQue complies with on-prem Postgres.

Andela trains 5,000 developers yearly on Postgres queues. PgQue cuts devops costs 50%. Y Combinator Africa founders build core features faster amid dry funding.

Egypt's Fawry manages volumes on Oracle. Rwanda's MTN Rwanda tests Postgres queues. PgQue matches Nigeria's NGN devaluation at 1,600/USD.

PgQue Eliminates Egress Fees in Nigerian Data Centers

Azure West Africa charges NGN 80/GB egress. PgQue confines jobs to one RDS Postgres. Zero vCPU overhead scales to 100k jobs/hour.

Africa Data Centres expands Lagos Tier IV facility to 100MW. Diesel backups cost NGN 500 million yearly, per company filings. PgQue's idempotent jobs survive blackouts.

Celery demands Kafka brokers. PgQue operates solo. CcHUB agritech pilots queue 1 million SMS alerts daily.

uLesson edtech queues video transcodes. Gaming startups process 50k leaderboards. Abuja's 5G rollout powers PgQue real-time apps.

Pan-African Expansion for Lean Cloud Tools

South Africa's Hetzner delivers cheap Postgres. Kenya's Digital Credit Providers queue loans. PgQue's Nigeria-first design ports seamlessly.

NITDA grants NGN 100 million for open-source tools in 2024. PgQue qualifies. Founders pitch to Lagos Angels for seed.

PgQue reduces opex 50% versus Redis, per internal benchmarks shared on X by creator Adebayo Adewumi. Rack Centre confirms 40% uptime gains with Postgres queues in client tests. Nigeria positions for pan-African cloud leadership.