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improved-user-driven-background-tasks

rob edited this page 2026-06-29 09:04:53 +00:00

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Implementation Ideas/Notions

The current code for background tasks isn't fantastic, and is a good candidate to be extracted into a standalone service.

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.