New Worker Type and AI Driven Development
A performance breakthrough came from an innovative collaboration with AI. We explained the PostgreSQL load challenges we were facing to an AI assistant, which designed an algorithm that offloads resource locking to Redis while maintaining task ordering guarantees. The AI then helped write the implementation code and test suite, dramatically accelerating our development process. This approach allowed us to rapidly prototype and validate the solution, demonstrating how AI can be a powerful tool for tackling complex architectural challenges.
We're excited to share that RedisWorker delivers 2.3x performance improvement! Our recent performance benchmarking demonstrates significant throughput improvements in Pulp's tasking system. By offloading resource locking from PostgreSQL to Redis and eliminating the task unblocking mechanism, we've achieved more than double the task processing throughput.