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I'm the author of Delayed Job. The popularity of it really surprises me to no end, and always brings a smile to my face. DJ took about 15 minutes to code up ori

by xal 16y ago

I'm the author of Delayed Job. The popularity of it really surprises me to no end, and always brings a smile to my face. DJ took about 15 minutes to code up originally and is a product of one of those software rage moments ("why don't people queue like this??!"). I put it on GitHub because Jeremy Kemper really wanted to have a look at it. I thought the idea behind it was so naive that it would have occurred to everyone who ever needed a queue and had discarded the approach for some reason. Little did I know that it was a fairly novel approach and that it would become one of my most popular libraries, right after ActiveMerchant and Liquid. Thank you for the PHP port!

ericwaller 16y ago
Great to hear from you. I remember being impressed by how short and straightforward delayed_job was when I first explored job queues. That's actually one of the only reasons I even considered building/porting something myself. You're welcome, and thank you for delayed_job!