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I am coming from the Java world and keep hearing this term 'worker' in the ruby/rails world. What is it? a thread?
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Workers is a Ruby gem for performing work in background threads. Design goals include high performance, low latency, simple API, customizability, and multi-layered architecture.
Workarea applications use Sidekiq as a job queuing backend to perform units of work asynchronously in the background. These jobs, which include search indexing, cache busting, and cleanup of expired data, are defined as workers .
Rails background workers: Sidekiq overview and how to deploy it to Heroku. Sidekiq is a framework for background job processing that is very useful for handling expensive computation, emails, and other processes that is better served outside of the main web application.
Depends on the context.
A worker is typically a process that runs outside of your application request cycle. Ruby libraries like resque and delayed_job are typically used to manage worker queues.
On the other hand, if we're talking about web servers the word "worker" is sometimes used interchangeably with threads or processes (ie: nginx or apache "workers").
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