Getting our application running with Redis

Running our application with Redis locally will require us to use Redis with Docker, export the APP_TYPE environment variable as "worker", and then run our application with Cargo. For our Redis, our docker-compose.yml file takes the following form:

version: "3.7"
services:
    redis:
      container_name: 'queue-redis'
      image: 'redis'
      ports:
        - '6379:6379'

We can then export our APP_TYPE environment variable with the following command:

export APP_TYPE=worker

We can then run our application with the following command:

cargo run

When we run our application, we will get the following printout:

IncomingBody { one: "one", two: 2 }
IncomingBody { one: "one", two: 2 }
IncomingBody { one...