18
Queuing Tasks with Redis
Receiving requests, performing an action, and then returning a response to the user can solve a lot of problems in web programming. However, there are times when this simple approach will simply not cut it. For instance, when I was working at MonolithAi, we had a functionality where the user would be able to put in data and parameters and then train a machine learning model on that data at a click of a button. However, trying to train a machine learning model before sending a response to the user would simply take too long. The connection would probably time out. To solve this, we had a Redis queue and a pool of workers consuming tasks. The training task would be put into the queue and one of the workers would work ...
Get Rust Web Programming - Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
