Mistake in guest post

[StarpTech]

The queue subscriber enables multiple clients to subscribe to the same stream with the same “queue name” and messages will be distributed to each member of the queue group.
https://nats.io/blog/use-cases-for-persistent-logs-with-nats-streaming/

This is not correct. Queue groups are designed to load balance traffic.

[ColinSullivan1]

@StarpTech , thank you for raising this. This was a guest post, and we don't like altering posts without the author's permission. I do think this can be read accurately - but do admit there's some ambiguity without the first sentence. Messages are distributed among members of the group. @bruth, wdyt?

[bruth]

That does read a bit odd now that you bring it up. This is what the NATS docs states for queue groups:

NATS provides a built-in load balancing feature called distributed queues. Using queue subscribers will balance message delivery across a group of subscribers which can be used to provide application fault tolerance and scale workload processing.

Maybe it should say "messages will be load balanced across members of the queue group"?

[StarpTech]

@bruth The whole sentence makes sense to me because of the keyword load balancing but in the guest post, there is no reference about it.

[bruth]

@StarpTech Sure, I am suggesting that we change what I wrote to this:

The queue subscriber enables multiple clients to subscribe to the same stream with the same “queue name” and messages will be load balanced across members of the queue group.

[bruth]

@ColinSullivan1 You have my permission to change the text to the above. 😉

[gcolliso]

Thanks @ColinSullivan1 , @bruth and @StarpTech I will make the update.

[gcolliso]

fixed with PR#532 nats-io/nats-site#532