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.