The Worker Model pattern
The idea behind the Worker Model pattern is to divide a large task or many tasks into smaller, manageable units of work, called workers, that can be processed in parallel. This approach to concurrency and parallel processing not only accelerates processing time but also enhances the application’s performance.
The workers could be threads within a single application (as we have just seen in the Thread Pool pattern), separate processes on the same machine, or even different machines in a distributed system.
The benefits of the Worker Model pattern are the following:
- Scalability: Easily scales with the addition of more workers, which can be particularly beneficial in distributed systems where tasks can be processed on multiple machines
- Efficiency: By distributing tasks across multiple workers, the system can make better use of available computing resources, processing tasks in parallel
- Flexibility: The Worker Model pattern can accommodate...
