Oban Training—Outline

Overview

👋 Welcome to Oban Training!

Sections

📓 Why Oban?

• Where we convince you that using Oban is a good idea
• Not really. It’s where we’ll give a high level overview of the architecture
• Terminology, how things work

📓 Up and Running

• Installing Oban into an application
• Running migrations
• Configuring for tests
• Verifying Oban is running and configured properly

📓 Signing Up

• Creating worker modules
• Enqueueing jobs
• Scheduling jobs to run in the future
• Asserting jobs are enqueued in tests

📓 Placing an Order

• Controlling worker behaviour with return values
• Testing worker functionality
• Managing retry backoff
• Providing execution timeouts

📓 Refunding an Order

• Ensuring uniqueness
• Cancelling and retrying jobs
• Replacing fields on unique conflicts
• Draining queues for integration testing

📓 Delivering a Daily Digest

• Running jobs on a schedule
• Managing multiple queues and concurrency
• Pausing and resuming queues
• Validating configuration changes

📓 Backfilling Reviews

• Deprioritizing jobs
• Inserting multiple jobs at once
• Recursively enqueuing jobs
• Asserting the content of all enqueued jobs

📓 Ready for Production

• Pruning older jobs
• Rescuing unexpectedly stopped jobs
• Logging and instrumenting with Telemetry
• Reporting errors