This document discusses AfterShip's use of Beanstalkd, an open source queue system. AfterShip uses Beanstalkd to process billions of jobs per day for shipment tracking across 290+ carriers. Beanstalkd provides first-in, first-out processing of jobs and supports features like priority, delaying jobs, and load balancing across 4 Beanstalkd servers with very high uptime. The document also compares Beanstalkd to other queue systems like Amazon SQS and outlines the typical lifecycle of a job within Beanstalkd, from putting a job onto the queue to reserving, deleting, burying, kicking, and delaying jobs.