Summary
In this chapter, we went through the basics of queuing and managed to get a server pushing WASM tasks onto a queue to be processed by workers. A lot of the concepts were already covered in previous chapters, but we did introduce how to push to and pull from queues using Redis. As pointed out in the chapter, this is a sign that we have come to the end of our journey. The training wheels are ready to come off, and I am excited about what you will build.
Throughout my coding career, I have embarked on many side projects, and a general rule of thumb is that roughly 80% of the people involved in the project drop off and never really finish it. If you have made it this far and read through the book, you are one of the few. I think you are awesome. In the world of LLMs and snappy online videos, you have chosen to sit down and read this book. The tech industry needs people like you. It has been an exciting journey. We have gone from building a single local Rust server to deploying...