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+The current code for background tasks isn't fantastic, and is a good candidate to be extracted into a standalone service.
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+# Requirements
+
+* Central HTTP API to initiate various background tasks
+* Tasks are ultimately just CLI scripts.
+* Tasks can be run on remote machines to scale out.
+* Tasks can push progress updates and logs back to the server.
+
+# Implementation Ideas/Notions
+
+* Jobs identified by UUIDs, generated by API consumer.
+* Need to think about priority-queue behavior that round-robins through client tenants, to prevent one tenant from DOSing the service.
+* How to push updates back to server?
+  * Just write to stdout and have server read output?
+  * Run jobs in background and have them PUT/POST updates back to service
+    * PSR-3 logger, or Stream/Writer for Monolog?  Async?
+* Client apps can poll server for updates.
+