Our asynchronos background job processing is powered by a series of worker servers.
- Athena: processes notifications
- Chronos: processes cron jobs
- Hermes: sends emails
- Mercury: processes reputation events
- Vulcan: indexes content for search
Each one of these can be run and developed independently with matching npm run dev:x and npm run build:x commands. (where x is the name of the server)
As you can see we follow a loose naming scheme based on ancient Greek, Roman, and philosophical figures that are somewhat related to what our servers do:
- Athena (/əˈθiːnə/) is the goddess of wisdom, craft, and war.
- Chronos (/ˈkroʊnɒs/) is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy
- Hermes (/ˈhɜːrmiːz/) is the messenger god, moving between the worlds of the mortal and the divine.
- Mercury (/ˈmɜːrkjʊri/) is the patron god of financial gain, commerce, eloquence (and thus poetry), messages/communication (including divination), travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery and thieves
- Vulcan is the god of fire, including the fire of volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge.
Many of our workers run off of our Redis queue to handle asynchronous events.