Installation

What is kokaq?

kokaq is an open source, distributed, cloud-native priority queue implementation, designed to solve the long-standing gap of native priority handling in cloud messaging systems. It’s built for high availability, low latency, and intelligent resource allocation — empowering mission-critical workflows with dynamic, weight-based prioritization.

🚀 Key Features

• Native Priority Queue Support
  Prioritize tasks and messages based on their true importance — no workarounds or consumer hacks required.

• Non-Discrete Priorities
  Fine-grained control using continuous, weight-based priority values instead of fixed levels.

• Cloud-Native Architecture
  Built from the ground up on kubernetes and other modern cloud environments, leveraging serverless and container-native workflows.

• Low Latency & High Availability
  Designed to handle latency-sensitive and real-time workloads with minimal delay and strong reliability.

• Strict Highest-Priority-First Model
  Ensures that the most important messages are always processed first, deterministically.

• SLA-Aware Resource Efficiency
  Prevents resource waste by adjusting queue behavior based on time-bound message SLAs.

• Observability and Insights
  Built-in support for real-time monitoring through open telemetry.

• Service Integration Ready
  Seamlessly connects with Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, Cloud Functions

💡 Why kokaq?

Cloud native message queue services don’t support real priority queues. kokaq introduces first-class support for prioritization, non-discrete weights, SLA-driven scheduling, and high-performance task routing — all without relying on multiple queues or consumer juggling.

🛠 Use Cases

• Real-time job processing with strict SLA guarantees
• Scheduling ML inference jobs by impact/urgency
• Event processing with dynamic business priority
• Smart prioritization in CI/CD or build pipelines
• Financial transaction routing or alerting