easywelfare / recruiter

Job Queue Manager: high performance, high volume, persistent, fault tolerant. 100% PHP/MongoDB, 100% Awesome

Disclaimer

This is a work in progress not ready to be used or seen. This work is sponsored by Onebip

Recruiter

It's a Job Queue Manager built with PHP meant to be used in PHP projects. Features and characteristics:

• Jobs are made persistent on MongoDB
• Jobs are retriable with complex and customizable strategies
• Multiple queues are supported through tagging
• Jobs are stored by default in an history collection for after the fact inspection and analytics
• Built to be robust, scalable and fault tolerant

History

Onebip is a payment system (think PayPal with mobile devices in place of credit cards), things like: payment notifications, subscription renewals, remainder messages, … are really important. You cannot skip or lose a job (notification are idempotent but payments are not). You cannot forgot to have completed a job (customer/merchant support must have data to do their job). You need to know if and when you can retry a failed job (external services have rate limits and are based on agreements/contracts). We have developed internally our job/queue solution called Recruiter. After a year in production and many billions of jobs we have decided to put what we have learned into a stand alone project and to make it available to everyone.

Continuous Integration

recruiter's Issues

Idempotent Job creation

Please provide a way to specify an "idempotence id" to avoid that a job gets scheduled twice. Even if the original job was archived

Handle final failure

Please provide a way to make the job aware that it won't be retried

Allow workable to kill its own PHP process in a clean way