Yii2 Queue with Redis on Docker Swarm is a game changer

I don't know why I haven't utilized this before, but the yiisoft/yii2-queue is a fantastic way to quickly and easily split some of your application processing out to asynchronous workers.

Getting it set up with a redis storage engine on a docker stack is super simple -- we just add a persistent redis service to the docker stack, configure the application to include the queue component, and move our slow process(es) into a queue job.

Since we're using a Docker Swarm stack we don't need to worry about setting up a cron or systemd service, we set up the queue listener as it's own service in the stack, which also gives us the ability to scale the queue workers dynamically as the need arises.

DockerCon Hallway Track - Logging to a NFS mounted Docker Volume

Recently at DockerCon I decided to check out the whole 'Hallway Track' concept and share a sticky situation we ran into at work. If you've never been, the Hallway Track is a coordinated effort to get conference attendees talking to one another and sharing knowledge. You post your topic or peruse the posted topics and they facilitate connecting people together to discuss face to face. I was amazed at the number of people who requested to talk to me about our experiences with the complications of writing application logs to a NFS mounted docker volume. The official title was "Lessons learned: Why writing to flat file logs in an NFS mounted docker volume is unwise".