Commit a963c4ee authored by Douwe Maan's avatar Douwe Maan

Update docs

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This document outlines various guidelines that should be followed when adding or
modifying Sidekiq workers.
## ApplicationWorker
All workers should include `ApplicationWorker` instead of `Sidekiq::Worker`,
which adds some convenience methods and automatically sets the queue based on
the worker's name.
## Default Queue
Use of the "default" queue is not allowed. Every worker should use a queue that
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## Dedicated Queues
Most workers should use their own queue. To ease this process a worker can
include the `DedicatedSidekiqQueue` concern as follows:
```ruby
class ProcessSomethingWorker
include ApplicationWorker
end
```
This will set the queue name based on the class' name, minus the `Worker`
suffix. In the above example this would lead to the queue being
`process_something`.
Most workers should use their own queue, which is automatically set based on the
worker class name. For a worker named `ProcessSomethingWorker`, the queue name
would be `process_something`. If you're not sure what a worker's queue name is,
you can find it using `SomeWorker.queue`.
In some cases multiple workers do use the same queue. For example, the various
workers for updating CI pipelines all use the `pipeline` queue. Adding workers
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## Removing or renaming queues
Try to avoid renaming or removing queues in minor and patch releases.
During online update instance can have pending jobs and removing the queue can
lead to those jobs being stuck forever. If you can't write migration for those
Sidekiq jobs, please consider doing rename or remove queue in major release only.
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Try to avoid renaming or removing queues in minor and patch releases.
During online update instance can have pending jobs and removing the queue can
lead to those jobs being stuck forever. If you can't write migration for those
Sidekiq jobs, please consider doing rename or remove queue in major release only.
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