More often than not you don't need a full fledged message queue like ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ with a full size message format. For simple asynchronous distribution tasks a very light weight persistent message queue like starling will be fine. Nevertheless you want a more sophisticated interface to interact with than a memcache interface. Simple Publisher tries to achieve exactly this: While using Starling as the queuing system in the background we provide a messaging terminology well know and understood. The terminology is strongly inspired by JMS which is kind a defacto standard for messaging on the API-level.