We use SQS for basically everything that happens asynchronously to the main flow. So when a user signs up there are a bunch of things that need to happen straight away (create an account, give 100MB to every new user), these go via HTTP. The others (email, give the owner of a Karma an additional 100MB and a push notification) goes through SNS and SQS.
All these async things don't impact the main flow of the user, so it's no problem that it isn't instantaneous. We are running background processes that do this.
We only use Rails for our frontend applications, they don't contain any business logic. Our backend processes are usually Sinatra for HTTP requests, or custom daemons.
All these async things don't impact the main flow of the user, so it's no problem that it isn't instantaneous. We are running background processes that do this.
We only use Rails for our frontend applications, they don't contain any business logic. Our backend processes are usually Sinatra for HTTP requests, or custom daemons.