# Announcing Spanner queues: Transactional messaging for agentic workloads and beyond

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- Publisher: Google Cloud
- Author credit: Nitin Sagar; Matthew Mucklo
- Category: Cloud
- Original publication time: 2026-10-02T16:00:00Z
- First observed by NexusTechWire: 2026-10-02T16:51:23Z
- Original source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanner-queues-provide-native-transactional-messaging/
- NexusTechWire record: https://nexustechwire.com/news/news-5f3f4eec6ac419284468

## The brief

Google Cloud has made Spanner queues generally available, letting applications commit database changes and queued tasks together in one transaction. Messages support delayed delivery, SQL consumption and transactional acknowledgments for agent handoffs and other asynchronous workflows. Google specifies at-least-once delivery and at-most-once acknowledgment. External calls still need safeguards such as the idempotency key used in Google's example.

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