alphagov/whitehall — pull request #422 by tekin (2013-04-10 00:03:05+00:00)
Title: Asnychronous govukdelivery

Tracker: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/47714397

This pulls the act of sending the gov uk delivery notification to a background job. I've removed the exception handling code here. Instead, we can rely on the built-in delayed job retry mechanism to retry failed jobs.

Someone with more familiarity with the delayed job setup should give this the once over. Specifically with regard to the number of workers and the likely throughput of jobs that will be generated for these notifications.