Have a look, try out and criticize: Disqontrol, a framework built on disque-php

[Revisor]

Hello everyone,
in the issue #22, over a year ago, I mentioned that I'd been working on a framework for running background jobs.

However, as Fred Brooks said many years ago, software projects take a lot longer than anticipated, even if you expect them to take a lot longer. If I had known at the beginning how long this would take me, I would probably have run away in fear.

Nevertheless I can now present to you: Disqontrol

Think of it as Resque/Celery, but built in PHP and on Disque. It communicates with Disque with the help of our beloved disque-php which proved an immense help during the development. A big thank you to all developers here, of course especially Mariano!

I would be very grateful if you could take a look, read the documentation and the code, take it out for a ride and criticize, criticize, criticize and pull-request away.

Warning, it is still very much in an alpha state, albeit already working in our development environment. But the base is already there and humming.

Thank you. (And I apologize to Mariano for opening an issue about this, hopefully it's OK. If not, feel free to close it.)

[mariano]

This looks super cool! Have you check Jodi's signal handler for an easy way to take advantage of php 7.1's improved signals? https://github.com/Seldaek/signal-handler I'm currently traveling and will be off the grid for 12 days so I'll check this out more thoroughly then. Looking forward to playing with it!

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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 19:14 Revisor ***@***.***> wrote: Hello everyone, in the issue #22 <#22>, over a year ago, I mentioned that I'd been working on a framework for running background jobs. However, as Fred Brooks said many years ago, software projects take a lot longer than anticipated, even if you expect them to take a lot longer. If I had known at the beginning how long this would take me, I would probably have run away in fear. Nevertheless I can now present to you: Disqontrol <https://github.com/disqontrol/disqontrol> Think of it as Resque/Celery, but built in PHP and on Disque. It communicates with Disque with the help of our beloved disque-php which proved an immense help during the development. A big thank you to all developers here, of course especially Mariano! I would be very grateful if you could take a look, read the documentation and the code, take it out for a ride and criticize, criticize, criticize and pull-request away. Warning, it is still very much in an alpha state, albeit already working in our development environment. But the base is already there and humming. Thank you. (And I apologize to Mariano for opening an issue about this, hopefully it's OK. If not, feel free to close it.) — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#35>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABIpgOaXfr230qZl9jfKZx6yUV8VuYrks5rPBnfgaJpZM4LbIGO> .

[Revisor]

Thank you for reminding me of this, I read about the improved signal handlers and thought about incorporating it later, but if someone's already done the job, I'll take a look at it.

Happy travels!

[Revisor]

I wrote

Warning, it is still very much in an alpha state, albeit already working in our development environment

I would now correct it to say, "warning, it's still in beta, albeit already working in our production environment." :-)

We've used it for a very light load (tens of jobs a day) since January, and so far so good.

Adding a new job is just a matter of writing one small class. We run Disqontrol under Supervisor and changing the queue configuration or adding new queues requires us to restart the process under Supervisor.

Adding a recurring job requires one row in the queue crontab, it can be done directly by a developer, it can be committed in the repository and deployed directly with the code. Changing the queue crontab doesn't require any restart.

[Revisor]

It's been 11 months since we started using Disqontrol in production. Everything works well.

Any other brave people want to take it for a test drive? :-)