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Deploying with JRuby 9k
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Deploying with JRuby 9k

by Joe Kutner
July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
150 pages
4h 24m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Running Background Jobs with Sidekiq

Twitalytics needs to annotate the text in each post with the stock information from the stock-service you created in Chapter 1, Getting Started with JRuby. Invoking the service could take a long time, which makes this interaction a good candidate for a background job.

You’ve already learned how to use the JVM’s concurrency features to perform asynchronous request processing. The power of a true multithreaded platform makes it possible to increase throughput by running operations in parallel, but there are still many cases when you may want to move some computation into a separate process. This is true for any compute-intensive job that might steal CPU time from the request threads. It’s also useful for ...

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