Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
31 lines (21 loc) · 1.53 KB

intro.md

File metadata and controls

31 lines (21 loc) · 1.53 KB

Table of contents

Workers

Our asynchronos background job processing is powered by a series of worker servers.

  • Athena: processes notifications
  • Chronos: processes cron jobs
  • Hermes: sends emails
  • Mercury: processes reputation events
  • Pluto: processes payments events
  • Vulan: indexes content for search

Each one of these can be run and developed independently with matching npm run dev:x and npm run build:x commands. (where x is the name of the server)

Naming scheme

As you can see we follow a loose naming scheme based on ancient Greek, Roman, and philosophical figures that are somewhat related to what our servers do:

  • Athena (/əˈθiːnə/) is the goddess of wisdom, craft, and war.
  • Chronos (/ˈkroʊnɒs/) is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy
  • Hermes (/ˈhɜːrmiːz/) is the messenger god, moving between the worlds of the mortal and the divine.
  • Mercury (/ˈmɜːrkjʊri/) is the patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves
  • Pluto was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology
  • Vulcan is the god of fire, including the fire of volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge.

Background jobs

Many of our workers run off of our Redis queue to handle asynchronous events.

Learn more about background jobs