api视图中的golang后台工作者进程

Question

We are planning to move to golang from django.

To send an email or sms, we do celery workers with redis/rabbotmq in Django. But how can we do that background tasks on golang.

Eg:

def api_view():

 // logic

 // celery tasks- call email/sms service

 // immediate response to client
 return Response()

How can we do in golang

fun ApiView(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request){

 //logic

 // need to call email/sms service


 fmt.Fprintf(w, "TEST")
}

Is there anything we can start new go routine (without additional redis/workers) inside the API view of gorilla/mux ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes! As comments stated you can spawn a new go routine within the context of your view. The goroutine gets its own stack and allows it to operate "asynchronously" from the view handling function:

func ApiView(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request){

 //logic

 // need to call email/sms service
 go sendEmail(someEmailAddress)

 fmt.Fprintf(w, "TEST")
}

This will execute sendEmail using a go routine and immediately write TEST to the caller.

---

While trivial it is not equivalent to celery redis/rabbitmq:

• How do you handle failures?
• How do you bound concurrency (worker pool)
• How do you buffer tasks? (ie currently in rabbitmq it is out of process)
• How do you retry?
• Should the async task be in a different process/memory space?

None of the above are particularly difficult, and completely doable (and plenty of patterns/blogs/libraries exist for doing this exact thing)