rustapi-jobs: The Workhorse

Lens: “The Workhorse” Philosophy: “Fire and forget, with reliability guarantees.”

Background Processing

Long-running tasks shouldn’t block HTTP requests. rustapi-jobs provides a robust queue system.

#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
// Define a job
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct EmailJob { to: String }

// Enqueue it
queue.push(EmailJob { to: "alice@example.com" }).await;
}

Backends

• Memory: Great for development and testing.
• Redis: High throughput persistence.
• Postgres: Transactional reliability (acid).

Reliability

The worker system features:

• Exponential Backoff: Automatic retries for failing jobs.
• Dead Letter Queue: Poison jobs are isolated for manual inspection.