Episode 420: RR 412: Asynchronous Jobs on Client Side and Server Side
Ruby Rogues
English - May 14, 2019 10:00 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsHow To Education News Tech News ruby ruby on rails rails programming technology developer development careers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dave Kimura
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Summary
Dave Kimura starts the episode by defining asynchronous jobs; he and Andrew Mason discuss the differences between server side and client side asynchronous jobs. They discuss use cases and address scenarios for which asynchronous jobs can be used for. Dave answers Andrew’s questions about tools, gems, and libraries. Dave expresses his love for Active job and advocates for Gitlab. The panel discusses overuse and misuse of asynchronous jobs and times when it is better not to use this tool. Dave shares what he thinks makes a good microservice; he and Andrew discuss where people go wrong with microservices.
Links
https://github.com/javan/whenever
https://github.com/moove-it/sidekiq-scheduler
https://github.com/ondrejbartas/sidekiq-cron
https://github.com/renderedtext/render_async
https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_job_basics.html
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Andrew Mason:
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Dave Kimura:
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