Terminology

Some sokka terminology:

Task

Task is the unit of work in Sokka.

{;; task-id unique id for a task
 :task-id  "7p9767c9hch7e6kt18nw9iwb1"

 :task-group-id "5a978"
 :task-description "daily products data sync - 10/05/21"
 :topic "products-sync"
 :sub-topic "default"
 :timeout-ms 10000
 :status :starting
 :data {
    :operation :sync-products
    :include :all
    :batch-size 100
  }
}

Reservation

Reservation is the process of acquiring a lock/lease on a task.

Extending Lease

For impentations that

Worker

A worker is a thread that

TaskQ

TaskQ is a durable queue of tasks.

• topic - a queue tasks.
• sub-topic - further grouping useful for filtering while listing tasks.
• task - the basic unit of work. ** task-id - unique id of the task. ** task-group-id - tasks can share a group-id to help make sense of related tasks. ** status - current status of a task. valid statuses are :starting, :running, :snoozed, :failed and :terminated.
  • worker - a background thread that de-queues tasks from a topic and executes them in another thread.