^ What follows are the slides from the talk, presented with Deckset ^ Note that this app itself does assume it's running locally on OSX, but can be tweaked by changing ^ the gif-opening logic in cats.rb

[fit] Working Smarter

[fit] @jamesdabbs | james@theironyard.com

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The Request-Response Cycle

1. User makes a request (via clicking on a link, submitting a form)
2. ???
3. Server sends back a response
4. There is no step 4

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Background workers allow you to perform work outside the request-response cycle

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Common Uses

• Sending email
• Sending email
• Periodic cleanups
• Anything that's slow

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^ Look at and understand the starting app ^ Add sidekiq and sidekiq web ^ Port to ActiveJobs ^ See the solutions branch for my implementation

[fit] Live

[fit] Coding

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Considerations

• Triggering work (scheduled or periodic jobs)
• Threads vs processes
• Queue backend
• Retry and failure handling
• Admin tools

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[fit] FIN

[fit] github.com/jamesdabbs/dcrug-workers