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Lessons learned in Building RQ a talk by Vincent Driessen (@nvie)

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@nvie

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http://nvie.com

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3rd Cloud

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I open source software

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http://python-rq.org

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It’s a job queue library.

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It’s simple.

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The Problem You have this awesome web app.

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The Problem But now you want to send an email.

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The Problem But now you want to send an email. Or do some data mining. Or warm up a cache. Or generate thumbnails.

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The Problem And you don't want to do it in the request-response cycle.

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The Problem So you look at existing solutions.

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(nothing else, really)

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The Problem So you go for Celery.

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The Problem But now you've got two problems.

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= awesome

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= POWERFUL

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= RELIABLE

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The Problem != SIMPLE

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The Problem You have to learn about Rabbit MQ, AMQP, channels, exchanges, routing keys, configure a result store, run DB migrations, etc.

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All I want is to put some work in the background.

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RQ

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Example Web app Worker Queue

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Scaling Web app Worker Queue Worker

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Scaling Web app Worker Queue Worker Queue may hand out each job only once!

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Scaling Web app Worker Queue Worker Web app

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Scaling Web app Worker Queue Worker Web app Queue must handle concurrent writes!

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Scaling Web app Worker Worker Web app ?

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Super awesome key-value store

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myqueue

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> RPUSH myqueue bar (integer) 1 myqueue

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> RPUSH myqueue qux baz (integer) 3 myqueue

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myqueue

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> LPOP myqueue myqueue

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> LPOP myqueue "bar" myqueue

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A PERFECT QUEUE (with FIFO semantics)

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Web app does RPUSH Worker does LPOP

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Simplicity + Reliability Principle

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Principle Simplicity ≥ Reliability

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Principle Simplicity ≥ Reliability ≥ Feature richness

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Principle Simplicity ≥ Reliability ≥ Feature richness ≥ Performance

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Simplicity “It is under 20 kB in size.” “It is under 500 lines of code.”

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Simplicity Zero-config No need to define queues You only need a Redis connection

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Simplicity Zero-config No need to define queues You only need a Redis connection You probably have that already!

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Simplicity q = Queue(…) q.enqueue(…)

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Simplicity q = Queue(connection=redis) q.enqueue(…)

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Simplicity q = Queue(connection=redis) q.enqueue(send_mail, '[email protected]')

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Simplicity send_mail ( '[email protected]')

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send_mail('[email protected]', template='foo') (send_mail, ('[email protected]',), {'template': 'foo'})

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(send_mail, ('[email protected]',), {'template': 'foo'}) "(cbar\nsend_mail \np0\n(S'[email protected]'\np1\ntp2\n(dp3\nS'template'\np 4\nS'foo'\np5\nstp6\n."

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Reliability Warm shutdown Cold shutdowns Never lose work Jobs should run isolated

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Reliability 1x Ctrl+C asks to stop politely 2x Ctrl+C terminates any running job

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PTGPSL Reliability

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Reliability Reliability ≥ Performance

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Reliability Pssst… but something cool is cooking!

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Maintaining open source projects ROCKS

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Hey, look at this awesome feature I built!

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I’ve spent countless hours building it but it’s finally finished! Hey, look at this awesome feature I built!

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I’ve spent countless hours building it but it’s finally finished! Hey, look at this awesome feature I built! ZOMG, that’s awesome! *drools*

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Maintaining open source projects SUCKS

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Hey, look at this awesome feature I built!

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Hey, look at this awesome feature I built! Don’t want it.

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But… I’ve spent countless hours building it! Hey, look at this awesome feature I built! Don’t want it.

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But… I’ve spent countless hours building it! Hey, look at this awesome feature I built! Don’t want it. Still don’t want it.

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Maintaining open source projects means rejecting sometimes

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Every contributor has best intentions

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$ rqworker --reliable

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$ php --reliable ^_^

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Never dismiss a person, only features

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Maintainers need to keep projects healthy and moving forward

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Try to be constructive

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Hard when you’re not judging work rationally

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Having core project values does help

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Having core project values does help shared!

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Having core project values does help e.g. “simplicity ≥ reliability” shared!

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RQ is simple

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It’s opinionated

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It’s opinionated (That’s why it’s simple)

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Redis was a deliberate choice

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Pickle was a deliberate choice

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Unix was a deliberate choice

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Python 2.6+ was a deliberate choice

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RQ gets all of that awesomeness for free

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(Still no Python 3, sorry)

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ROADMAP

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0.4

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Finally! Concurrent workers

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Pre-forking worker Gevent worker Concurrent workers

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0.5

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Integration with the excellent rq-scheduler by Selwin Ong Scheduler

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Automatic retries Periodic jobs Scheduler

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Thank you!

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@nvie nvie/rq http://python-rq.org