In this episode, we look at creating an audio transcription service which allows files uploaded from Active Storage to be transcribed with Artificial Intelligence. However, there are a lot of considerations around the approach from both a performance and thread safety perspectives.

In this episode, we have a look at some causes of race conditions and go about some ways to troubleshoot and mitigate them.

GoodJob is a multithreaded, Postgres-based, ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.

Resque is a Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placing those jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later.

Over time, orphaned records can build up within Active Storage. In this episode, we look at a few approaches to clean up these orphaned records.