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Join us this Thursday for a talk on keeping your job queues happy by @dmagliola:
https://nwrug.org/events/august-2023-what-does-high-priority-mean-the-secret-to-happy-queues
Grab yourself a ticket! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-does-high-priority-mean-the-secret-to-happy-web-app-job-queues-tickets-685760938427
@hazelweakly I talk more about how to set up observability for your metrics in the talk repo, near the end. Hope that helps!
Companion information for my Rubyconf 2022 talk: "The secret to happy queues" - GitHub - dmagliola/happy_queues: Companion information for my Rubyconf 2022 talk: "The secret to happy...
@dmagliola name queues after their latency
within_X_time
And then keep that promise!
(This would make mastodon's queues so much easier to understand and optimize, omg)
@dmagliola queues are broken really means
A job didn't run...
... Yet (but I think it should've)
... So it's late (in my opinion)
Ergo, "broken"
Queues should give indication themselves as to what it means for them to perform as expected or not. The vocabulary we use gets us trapped in locally bad decisions.
Listening to @dmagliola talking about happy sidekiq queues
Could've used some of this a while ago 👀
A while ago @kevin_j_m pointed out that, when giving recommendations about queues setup, I don't even mention how they should be monitored. This was dumb :)
I've now written a bit about it on the talk repo:
https://github.com/dmagliola/happy_queues#monitoring-your-queues
If you run background jobs on your apps, hope this helps!
Companion information for my Rubyconf 2022 talk: "The secret to happy queues" - GitHub - dmagliola/happy_queues: Companion information for my Rubyconf 2022 talk: "The secret to happy...
Ian Ramjohn
North West Ruby User Group
Hazel Weakly