I'm a beginner for this field, so I have some questions. Is it spontaneous for the machine/server to pull data from the queue, run reports, and so on to perform

I'm a beginner for this field, so I have some questions. Is it spontaneous for the machine/server to pull data from the queue, run reports, and so on to perform batch operations? What is the extracted data used for? Isn't this action responding to a request?