Redis has blocking list primitives which you can use to build an efficient queue (push and pop in O(1)), if you look at the code you'll see he's using brpop
I agree but there is no need to poll. Polling is a poor mans solution in a world where you can have persistent connection and get push notification of when a new item is added to the queue and there is no need to throttle for 10 seconds before polling again.
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Redis has blocking list primitives which you can use to build an efficient queue (push and pop in O(1)), if you look at the code you'll see he's using brpop
I agree but there is no need to poll. Polling is a poor mans solution in a world where you can have persistent connection and get push notification of when a new item is added to the queue and there is no need to throttle for 10 seconds before polling again.
A listening pattern still has to poll on boot for unprocessed jobs.