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title: "Guides"
description: "Things to build with Queen MQ: state machines, exactly-once charges, webhooks, streams, ephemeral request/reply, Kafka clients and Laravel queues, each with code that runs and the edges it has."
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# Guides

Queen commits a few things together that usually live in different systems: the ack of a message,
a write to its KV store, pushes to other queues, and timers. These guides put that to work on
problems that normally need an outbox table, a lock service, a scheduler or a separate stream
processor beside the broker. Each one starts from code that runs and ends with the edges it has.

If you read one, read the state machine. The other patterns are variations of its single
transaction.

## Patterns

- [One state machine per entity](/guides/state-machines/): an order that is created, paid and
  shipped, or cancelled by its own timer, run by stateless workers without locks.
- [Charge a card once](/guides/exactly-once/): a redelivered order made harmless by a marker that
  commits with the ack.
- [Deliver webhooks](/guides/webhooks/): in order per endpoint, retried by the broker, and
  dead-lettered with the error when an endpoint never answers.

## Features

- [Streams](/guides/streams/): windows and aggregates in your own process, with the state kept in
  Queen and one commit per cycle.
- [Ephemeral queues](/guides/ephemeral/): in-memory queues for request/reply, presence and signals,
  served by every node of a cluster and handed over when a node stops.

## Integrations

- [Kafka clients](/guides/kafka/): point an unmodified Kafka client at the broker. A topic is a
  queue, so a native consumer reads what a Kafka producer wrote, and the other way round.
- [Kafka Streams, Connect and Flink](/guides/kafka-frameworks/): what each framework asks of the
  broker, what has run against it, and where each one stops.
- [Postgres source and sink](/guides/postgres/): stream PostgreSQL tables into queues and queues
  into tables from inside the broker, with exactly-once effects in both directions.
- [S3 sink](/guides/s3/): mirror queues into an S3-compatible bucket as JSONL or Parquet from
  inside the broker, exactly once, in a layout DuckDB and Spark read directly.
- [Laravel](/guides/laravel/): Queen as a Laravel queue connection, with worker supervisors, their
  dashboard, scaling on Kubernetes and monitoring.

Source: https://queenmq.com/guides/index.mdx