I am coming from the Java world and keep hearing this term ‘worker’ in the ruby/rails world. What is it? a thread?
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I am coming from the Java world and keep hearing this term ‘worker’ in the ruby/rails world. What is it? a thread?
Depends on the context.
A worker is typically a process that runs outside of your application request cycle. Ruby libraries like resque and delayed_job are typically used to manage worker queues.
On the other hand, if we’re talking about web servers the word “worker” is sometimes used interchangeably with threads or processes (ie: nginx or apache “workers”).