Commit c4e67909 authored by Sean McGivern's avatar Sean McGivern

Merge branch 'clarify-sidekiq-job-urgency' into 'master'

Add clarification to Sidekiq job urgency docs

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!64314
parents 8da381ba f92538ba
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If a large number of background jobs get scheduled at once, queueing of jobs may
occur while jobs wait for a worker node to be become available. This is normal
and gives the system resilience by allowing it to gracefully handle spikes in
traffic. Some jobs, however, are more sensitive to latency than others. Examples
of these jobs include:
traffic. Some jobs, however, are more sensitive to latency than others.
In general, latency-sensitive jobs perform operations that a user could
reasonably expect to happen synchronously, rather than asynchronously in a
background worker. A common example is a write following an action. Examples of
these jobs include:
1. A job which updates a merge request following a push to a branch.
1. A job which invalidates a cache of known branches for a project after a push
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