Feature Request: Rate Limiting

[coderberry]

One of the hardest things to manage when dealing with background jobs is rate limiting requests.

Here's the free OSS solution I use currently in ruby: https://github.com/enova/sidekiq-rate-limiter

Here is the page that describes the problem and solution (with Sidekiq enterprise):

https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Ent-Rate-Limiting

Thank you for your contributions to OSS!!!

[lpil]

Does this need to be implemented within Rihanna itself? It would be easy for a job to rate limit itself using something like Hammer (https://github.com/ExHammer/hammer) and re-enqueuing itself later if it has been limited.

I would be concerned about the performance implications of implementing this in core Rihanna for regular non-limited users.

[samsondav]

@lpil to be fair, hammer requires either Redis or mnesia (urgh). Many people who use Rihanna do so explicitly because they don't want to bring on another third party service.

[lpil]

It has a pluggable backend so you could use Postgres or whatever else if you want.