Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite

kept by eddie apr 28

Honker brings Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN semantics to SQLite by polling the WAL file, enabling cross-process push-style event delivery with single-digit millisecond latency without a broker.

Honker | Honker
Honker is a SQLite extension that provides durable queues, pub/sub, and task scheduling within the same database file, enabling atomic transactional enqueue without a separate broker like Redis.
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