Moving Workloads to Background Processes in Drupal - When Things Take Longer Than Expected

Explore strategies for managing complex tasks and large-scale updates in Drupal sites by leveraging background processes. Learn how to identify potential bottlenecks and implement solutions using batches, cron jobs, and queues to handle resource-intensive operations. Discover techniques for controlling timeouts, managing memory consumption, and handling errors when dealing with tasks that involve updating thousands of nodes or assigning taxonomy terms automatically. Gain insights into various approaches for executing heavy tasks in separate processes, ensuring smoother performance and avoiding issues like the White Screen of Death or random timeout messages. Ideal for developers managing large Drupal sites that require frequent updates based on different triggers, this 42-minute conference talk from DrupalCon Lille 2023 provides practical examples and strategies to optimize your Drupal projects by moving workloads to background processes.