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by joelbluminator
2441 days ago
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But part of the idea behind a queue job is not to overwhelm the server with heavy jobs that aren't urgent. Even with a thread pool, in java, you may still overwhelm the server with heavy jobs like sending emails, if you do not clog the threads you may still spike the memory - do you really want your server and your background jobs to share the same memory and resources?. So the separate instance make sense to me - they are a feature in fact. I really want to know from someone from the java ecosystem more about how they handle heavy background jobs. I get that Elixir may have this part done in a nicer way, but still ,Sidekiq is a VERY polished tool. |
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Erlang/Elixir processes don't share memory (Actor model) like Java threads do, giving it a distinct advantage (see Akka for Actor model in Java).
But yeah, for heavy stuff even in Elixir, you might want to outsource that to a Job server (which there are many libraries in Elixir for this).