Worker Model Design

InfraLynx workers are independent runtime processes that consume leased jobs from the shared queue abstraction.

Worker responsibilities

• lease the next pending job
• execute the registered handler for the job type
• write lifecycle updates back to the queue store
• append job logs for significant execution milestones
• emit audit-friendly lifecycle summaries

Worker design rules

• workers must treat every job as potentially retried
• handlers must be idempotent
• workers must not assume exclusive ownership beyond the active lease
• missing handlers are treated as execution failures, not silent drops

Current baseline

The current worker runtime provides:

• single-cycle execution for deterministic tests and smoke checks
• loop mode for continuous polling
• handler registration by job type
• bounded retry behavior
• file-backed operational storage that can later be replaced behind the queue abstraction