Glossary
Review the definitions for terms used across Cloudflare’s Queues documentation.
| Term | Definition |
| 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. |
| producer | a producer is the term for a client that is publishing or producing messages on to a queue. |
| consumer | a consumer is the term for a client that is subscribing to or consuming messages from a queue. |