Workers Glossary

Browse 2 workers terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Workers Terms

Background Service: A long-running service that performs work behind the scenes without direct user interaction, such as consuming queues, syncing data, or watching for events....
Job Queue: A system that stores units of work to be processed asynchronously by worker processes instead of during the user-facing request. Job queues are used for tasks...