Acidic Job awaited steps

Joel and Stephen work on a feature in Acidic Job that lets you configure certain steps to await other steps.

Hey everyone! 👋

In this episode, I’m joined by Stephen Margheim who maintains a Ruby gem called Acidic Job. Acidic Job is a framework to help you make your operational jobs atomic, consistent, isolated and durable. It was inspired by a series of articles written by Brandur Leach:

• Building Robust Systems with ACID and Constraints

• Using Atomic Transactions to Power an Idempotent API

• Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres

• Implementing Stripe-like Idempotency Keys in Postgres

For extra context, you can watch Stephen’s RubyConf talk:

Also check out the pull request that came from this pairing session.

If you have any questions or feedback please post a comment and we’ll try to help.

— Joel