Background workers sound simple but can be risky.
Design considerations:
- At-least-once vs at-most-once
- Idempotency in job handlers
- Retry, visibility timeout, and dead-letter queues
Queue tools: Sidekiq, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS.
Designing Background Jobs for Safety and Efficiency
Author
Shiv Bade
Tags
background jobs
task queues
Published
November 10, 2016
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