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Glossary

Review the definitions for terms used across Cloudflare's Queues documentation.

Term Definition
consumer

A consumer is the term for a client that is subscribing to or consuming messages from a queue.

producer

A producer is the term for a client that is publishing or producing messages on to a queue.

queue

A queue is a buffer or list that automatically scales as messages are written to it, and allows a consumer Worker to pull messages from that same queue.