The Yak Shave

1: A Brave New World

Episode Summary

In the inaugural episode of The Yak Shave, Sam and Sean discuss the complexities of asynchronous background jobs, when it's appropriate for an application, and the challenges involved with building a job queue from scratch.

Episode Notes

• The despacito music video.
• A video of Sean trying to get Ruby saying despacito
• The bikeshed: Sean's previous podcast.
• Crates.io: the package registry for Rust and
  Cargo the rust package manager
• Carol and Ashley
  on twitter.
• AWS S3 and "Read Your Writes" consistency
  • A good primer on Eventual Consistency,
    and separately, a good primer on "read your writes"
• Sidekiq: Mike Perham's Ruby job
  processing library
  • Advice on long running jobs
• RabbitMQ and the jepsen analysis
  of it's failure modes.
• At least once semantics
• Idempotency keys by stripe.
• GitHub's GraphQL API
• Two phase commit
• Postgres skip locked
• Diesel's transaction function