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Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq
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Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq

by David B. Copeland
November 2023
Beginner to intermediate
80 pages
2h 1m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Monitoring for Failed Jobs That Stop Retrying

Suppose our payments service deprecated the API call being used, and it now always returns an HTTP 503. That might not be how you’d handle API deprecation, but you can’t control the payment processors of the world. In this case, what you’ve been treating as a transient error is now a permanent one. Luckily, you know how to handle permanent errors: monitor them. Unluckily, you just spent the last section disabling notifications about this particular error.

Sidekiq provides a solution called the dead set. The dead set is a set of jobs that have been retried too many times and have been set aside, never to be retried again. The default setting for max_retries results in a job being moved to the dead ...

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