job-iteration
Makes your background jobs interruptible and resumable by design. (by Shopify)
acidic_job
Idempotent operations for Rails apps, built for ActiveJob or Sidekiq. (by fractaledmind)
| job-iteration | acidic_job | |
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| 5 | 2 | |
| 1,025 | 397 | |
| 0.9% | - | |
| 8.6 | 7.0 | |
| 6 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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job-iteration
Posts with mentions or reviews of job-iteration.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
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Gnarly Learnings from December 2022
Shopify/Job-Iteration
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Announcing sidekiq-iteration - a gem that makes your sidekiq jobs interruptible and resumable by design
I am publishing a new gem - https://github.com/fatkodima/sidekiq-iteration. For those familiar with job-iteration (https://github.com/Shopify/job-iteration) from Shopify, this is an adoption of that gem to be used with raw Sidekiq (no ActiveJob).
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Making background jobs more resilient by default
Now that we are batching data together, we want to limit how long a single job can run. In order to tackle this, we leveraged functionality from the job-iteration gem. This gem provides an interface where we can define an enumerator and what to do each iteration. The gem will handle the rest. Utilizing this, our job and module will now look like this: (For ease of reading, the bit of code already shown has been removed.)
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Why does this function use a lot of memory?
For advanced use cases, check out https://github.com/Shopify/job-iteration which keeps track of progress and can resume after deployment/VM eviction/etc
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Getting Sidekiq to play nicely with auto-scaling
If that's the case, https://github.com/Shopify/job-iteration could help by making all your jobs easily interruptible.
acidic_job
Posts with mentions or reviews of acidic_job.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
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Organize Business Logic in Your Ruby on Rails Application
There are several workarounds for this, like the magnificent Acidic Job gem or Sidekiq Pro/Enterprise features around enhanced reliability and unique jobs. Still, if they occur, bugs related to missing jobs and/or job idempotency are hard to track down and even harder to fix.
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Announcing sidekiq-iteration - a gem that makes your sidekiq jobs interruptible and resumable by design
I think acidic-job also covers a similar problem space with the Iterable Steps feature.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing job-iteration and acidic_job you can also consider the following projects:
Sidekiq - Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby
activejob-uniqueness - Unique jobs for ActiveJob. Ensure the uniqueness of jobs in the queue.
sidekiq-unique-jobs - Prevents duplicate Sidekiq jobs
sidekiq-iteration - Make your long-running sidekiq jobs interruptible and resumable.
Redis - Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.
Shoryuken - A super efficient Amazon SQS thread based message processor for Ruby
crystal - The Crystal Programming Language
lambdakiq - 🔄👷 ActiveJob with SQS & Lambda