From Embedded Utility to Pluggable Backend Abstraction
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When I first added message queue support to the Chisanan232/slack-mcp-server project, it lived as a single helper tucked inside that repository. The job was simple: receive Slack webhook events, queue them, and let the rest of the system process them asynchronously. It worked well enough, but I quickly ran into the limits of keeping that logic embedded in one codebase.