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hirelings

v0.4.3

Published

3 years ago

Manage a pool of disposable processes working on queued jobs

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node-hirelings

node-hirelings is a lightweight work queue using child processes.

Use this to perform work that might:

block the event loop;
fail spectacularly;
be aborted impolitely;
be retried a few times;
report progress;
be measured with statsd or suchlike.

This is heavily inspired by lloyd/compute-cluster. In fact, node-hirelings began life as a great big pull request before I realized that was a dumb idea and just started my own project.

Installation

$ npm install node-hirelings

Usage

TODO: Need something sensible here. Tests are an example, for now.

API

TODO: Need something sensible here. Maybe pointer to docco output from lib/hirelings.js?

Frequently Anticipated Questions

Why "hirelings"?
- It amuses me to pick odd names for projects. Hirelings are the semi-disposable, semi-reliable hired help that players can pick up in role-playing games.

TODO

Further limit respawning workers that die early. Maybe kill the pool entirely with an error if too many workers are dying in a span of time.
Promises-based API?

License

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.