In this video, we continue the tutorials on the Jets Ruby Serverless Framework that adds Ruby support to AWS Lambda. We’ll cover background jobs in this video. Using background jobs is a typical pattern that offloads processing outside of the web request-response cycle. Users will not wait for web pages to load if it takes too long, so background jobs are an excellent technique to keep slower work outside of the request cycle.

Summary of What We’ll Cover

• Explain What A Background Job Is
• Create a Background Job
• Deploy the App to AWS Lambda
• Explore the AWS CloudWatch Event Rule Console
• See how to check how many times the Job has Ran
• Check out CloudWatch Logs

More info

• For an Jets Introduction: Introducing Jets: A Ruby Serverless Framework.
• Also more info at: Jets documentation site.

Jets Links and Tutorial Series

• Introducing Jets: A Ruby Serverless Framework
• Toronto Serverless Presentation: Jets Framework
• Jets Afterburner: Serverless Rails in 5 Minutes
• Mega Mode: Rails on AWS Lambda
• An Introductory CRUD App Part 1
• Deploy to AWS Lambda Part 2
• Debugging Logs Part 3
• Background Jobs Part 4
• IAM Policies Part 5
• Function Properties Part 6
• Extra Environments Part 7
• Different Environments Part 8
• Polymorphic Support Part 9
• Jets Delete Tutorial
• Jets Image Uploads Tutorial with CarrierWave
• Cron Job Tutorial: Backup Route53
• Build an API with the Jets Ruby Serverless Framework