Worker design pattern

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What is "worker" design pattern?

When I think of "worker" I can't help think about "jobs" -- workers do jobs. Workers handle the queueing/dispatching of jobs, and jobs are discrete units of work, potentially with some state like "repeatable", etc. — David James, Oct 28 '15 at 15:12

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It could be that you are after a worker thread pattern, where you use a queue to schedule tasks that you want to be processed "offline" by a worker thread. Some solutions will use a pool of worker threads instead of single thread to achieve performance gains by utilising paralelisation.

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Viral Shah · Answer 2 · 2011-02-09T14:20:13.703

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Something like MapReduce comes to mind. Where multiple tasks can be performed in parallel on worker nodes.

Edit: As @larsmans mentioned, this is known as the Master/Worker pattern.

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Dead link try https://docs.gigaspaces.com/sbp/master-worker-pattern.html – wmitchell Mar 07 '18 at 17:55
Obsolete link, use https://docs.gigaspaces.com/solution-hub/master-worker-pattern.html – Mushaheed Syed Aug 27 '20 at 03:47

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