koddr/tutorial-go-asynq

📖 Tutorial: Asynq. Simple, reliable & efficient distributed task queue for your next Go project.

📖 Tutorial: Asynq. Simple, reliable & efficient distributed task queue for your next Go project

Asynq is a Go library for queueing tasks and processing them asynchronously with workers. It's backed by Redis and is designed to be scalable yet easy to get started. Task queues are used as a mechanism to distribute work across multiple machines.

👉 The full article is published on April 7, 2021, on Dev.to: https://dev.to/koddr/asynq-simple-reliable-efficient-distributed-task-queue-for-your-next-go-project-4jhg

Quick start

1. Clone this repository and go to it root folder.
2. Start a Redis server (by Docker or locally).
3. Start Asynq worker server:

make worker

4. Start generating tasks by Asynq client:

make client

5. Install Asynqmon (Asynq web UI) to your system.
6. Go to localhost:8080 and see:

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