What happens to a currently running batch when you publish a new version of a consumer Worker? Does

What happens to a currently running batch when you publish a new version of a consumer Worker? Does it finish processing that batch on the old version?

JJacob What happens to a currently running batch when you publish a new version of a co...

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:13 AM

Yes, any running invocations run to completion. New invocations will use the new script version.

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:13 AM

Same for any Worker

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:14 AM

Perfect, thanks! Just double checking

Was deploying while it was working through a 2.7k backlog and wanted to make sure I wasn't breaking it

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:15 AM

It's so fun watching it go pogPepe

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:17 AM

If you want it to go faster you’ll be able to let it scale our horizontally soon too - or just limit it to 1

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:19 AM

That's awesome! Sadly this particular queue is just waiting on Discord rate limits, but I'm super excited about trying more scalable workloads on Queues

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:20 AM

One thing I'd like to try with Queues that would benifit from horizontal scaling: I have about 3 million files in R2 that I accidently saved under the wrong paths. It would be cool to use Queues to move them all

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:23 AM

each one would need to read the file, parse out a timestamp, and then move it

MMatt Silverlock If you want it to go faster you’ll be able to let it scale our horizontally soon...

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:24 AM

When will that be out? I'd love to try it this weekend

JJacob When will that be out? I'd love to try it this weekend 🙂

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:25 AM

Probably next week?

- Docs PR: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-docs/pull/7932
- WIP wrangler PR you can probably check out or grab the API endpoints from: https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/pull/2859

GitHub

queues: consumer concurrency by elithrar · Pull Request #7932 · clo...

New feature: consumer concurrency.

Changelog
Limits page updated
Update /platform/configuration/ with new properties
wrangler updates merged from cloudflare/workers-sdk#2859
New /learning/con...

GitHub

Add support for Queue Consumer concurrency by jbwcloudflare · Pull ...

What this PR solves / how to test:
This PR adds support for new Queues Consumer configuration options: concurrency_enabled and max_concurrency.
Associated docs issues/PR: In progress
Author has inc...

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:26 AM

Sweet! Looking forward to the release

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:26 AM

Btw can a Queue send to itself or is recursion not allowed?

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:26 AM

I guess you could always fetch to a Worker that sends back to it

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:27 AM

Trying to think of the best way to queue up 3 million items

JJacob Btw can a Queue send to itself or is recursion not allowed?

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:27 AM

You can do that if you want. We just don’t recommend it.

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:28 AM

R2 list() -> write keys to queue in sendBatch() -> paginate -> keep going. Store page state in a KV key or D1?

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:28 AM

Oh that could work. and then just keep hitting the endpoint until it pages through them all

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:29 AM

Call ack() when the copy succeeds or retry() to put it back on the queue

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:29 AM

In the consumer

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:29 AM

amazingggg I can't wait

I could use https://repeat.dev on a cron for pinging the list() worker to keep it all in the cloud too

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JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:30 AM

I'm curious to see how best to manage concurrency. Does it automatically scale down if you call retry() too much?

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:31 AM

Yeah and/or throw errors from your consumer

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:32 AM

The bottleneck is probably the copy calls vs the list

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:32 AM

Since copy will be blocking, IIRC, until the copy is done

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:32 AM

Yep - I can do up to 8x concurrency though which should help

MMatt Silverlock Yeah and/or throw errors from your consumer

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:33 AM

Cool - I definitely prefer to avoid erroring out the consumer whenever possible so retry() will work great

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:34 AM

Or ack() what you need and throw to force retry of anything you didn’t ack in that batch

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:34 AM

https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/learning/batching-retries/#explicit-acknowledgement

Batching and Retries · Cloudflare Queues

When configuring a consumer Worker for a queue, you can also define how messages are batched as they are delivered.

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:35 AM

that works too. But throwing a global error to trigger behavior feels wrong haha

Matt Silverlock•3/9/23, 1:37 AM

#alwaysbethrowin

JacobOP•3/9/23, 1:37 AM

that's nice that it behaves that way though for when you have an unexpected error

JacobOP•3/9/23, 2:59 AM

What is the max size that a backlog can grow to?

Unsmart•3/9/23, 3:08 AM

there isnt a limit only way messages get removed is being processed or being older than 4 days

Unsmart•3/9/23, 3:09 AM

oh wait jk the backlog size is 25GB

Unsmart•3/9/23, 3:09 AM

interesting thats newly added to the limits page

Unsmart•3/9/23, 3:09 AM

I think

JacobOP•3/9/23, 2:19 PM

Ahh thanks I missed that

JJacob That's awesome! Sadly this particular queue is just waiting on Discord rate limi...

Kai•3/14/23, 10:18 PM

Any chance you can share how you did this? I've still not figured out an efficient way to do something like this.

Kai•3/14/23, 10:20 PM

Also, unrelated, is there a chance we can get a sort of dynamic key as part of queues? There's still only one queue and one consumer script but batching & concurrency is done per-key?
Seems like an easy way to enable much more reuse. Creating a new queue for every log file that needs appending or for every API region etc. is annoying and feels unnecessary, they are all exact duplicates just with a different name to make them work in parallel

KKai Any chance you can share how you did this? I've still not figured out an efficie...

JacobOP•3/14/23, 10:35 PM

It’s not terribly clever… I just watch for it to return headers saying it’s out of quota and await scheduler.wait() with whatever duration it gives in another header. Also sleeps if I get back a 429 (based on the retry_after value it sends.) I do a bit of extra sleeping after like 4x 429s in a short period to be nice, but it’s not entirely necessary.
Discord has good documentation for the rate limit headers and 429 responses it sends: https://discord.com/developers/docs/topics/rate-limits

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Kai•3/14/23, 10:36 PM

await scheduler.wait()

this is probably the bit I'm missing? what is that? Does that sleep but isn't billable / cause timeouts?

JacobOP•3/14/23, 10:38 PM

Basically the same as the classic await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 2000)); AFAIK. You will get billed for that duration

JacobOP•3/14/23, 10:38 PM

Discord only ever makes me wait like 2 seconds so I haven’t run into timeouts

Kai•3/14/23, 10:39 PM

ah ok :/ I have much tighter & complex rate limits and have so far failed to implement them on top of cloudflare without also paying a lot. Like 10k+ outstanding requests but only 200 / 1h allowed & any overrun disqualifies me from getting higher limits so

JacobOP•3/14/23, 10:41 PM

Ahh yeah if it’s that tight then Queues might not work for you

Kai•3/14/23, 10:41 PM

yeah, but thanks for sharing anyways!

JacobOP•3/14/23, 10:43 PM

Maybe you could specify the file it should append to in the Queue message? Each message you send is an object, so you could send something like {file: “log1.txt”, line: “my log line 123”}

JacobOP•3/14/23, 10:43 PM

Then the consumer would check that field and append to that file

Kai•3/14/23, 10:43 PM

yeah but then the batching gets worse and worse the more files I funnel through that one

JacobOP•3/14/23, 10:44 PM

Consumer concurrency is coming soon

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