How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table
a day ago
- #Database Design
- #Async Tasks
- #Postgres
- Advocates for using a Postgres table to manage async tasks, keeping servers simple and fast.
- Highlights the importance of immediate customer feedback and offloading tasks to the database for later processing.
- Warns against writing to multiple places at the same time, advocating for database transactions to maintain consistency.
- Promotes using Postgres for various functionalities to avoid complexity from mixing different systems.
- Introduces a simple retry system for async tasks, emphasizing error handling and scalability.
- Discusses the benefits of human fault tolerance, suggesting computers handle retries rather than humans.
- Provides a code example for setting up a task table and worker in Postgres, including features like transaction handling and parallel processing.