uWSGI Spooler: Built-in Background Jobs Without Extra Infrastructure
uWSGI's Spooler provides a file-based, at-least-once background job queue with zero external dependencies. Learn how to configure it, monitor queue depth, and handle failure modes.
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uWSGI's Spooler provides a file-based, at-least-once background job queue with zero external dependencies. Learn how to configure it, monitor queue depth, and handle failure modes.
uWSGI's built-in Spooler offloads long-running tasks from HTTP workers using a file-based queue — no Redis, no extra services. This post covers configuration, a worked PDF-generation example, and the operational trade-offs versus Celery/RQ.
Task Persistence and Ordering in uWSGI Spooler The uWSGI Spooler allows for background task offloading by utilizing a directory-based queue system. While tasks are persisted to disk to survive reloads, maintaining a strict First-In-First-Out (FIFO) execution sequence is critical for certain integration workflows. The spooler-ordered configuration option is i