Priority

[ruuts]

Hi @tawan!

Any idea how to implement some sort of priority system for messages?
With delayed job you can give the job a priority. So it will be processed with precedence above others.

In Beanstalk I can imagine the following:

• Make multiple worker environments
• One with more app servers than the other so jobs will be processed quicker.
• Send jobs to a different queues.

Is there a better way?

[tawan]

Hi @ruuts,
I would implement it as you have explained it. Amazon SQS does not provide a mechanism to change the order of messages in a queue itself. I also think that the docs mention that your approach is the way to go.

You can also play with the auto-scale settings. If load increases, let the worker env spawn more instances. Maybe it also makes sense to have a queue for fast running jobs (like emails), and a queue for heavy slow jobs.

In the end it depends on the budget. Each additional worker environment means at least one EC2 micro instance.

[ruuts]

@tawan alright thanks for the info! I think we will start of with one queue and fine tune when everything is being used in production.