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09:06. Moe’s job: 0 tries.2 waiting · 3 busy · 5 done
Chapter 6 of 7
The job that never works
Retries saved the outage. But one order has an address the courier can’t read, and its job fails every time.
This chapter: What should a queue do with a job that will never succeed?
About this chapter
You will learn
- A poison job fails on every try
- A limit on tries stops the retrying
- A dead-letter queue keeps it for a person
Words you’ll meet
- Poison job
- A job that fails every time, however often it is tried.
- Dead-letter queue
- A shelf for jobs that ran out of tries, kept for a person to look at.
Step 1 of 5
Moe’s job is a : the courier can’t read the address. It retries at once, with no limit.
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