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@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
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-Simple and efficent asynchronous task processing library in Go.
+Simple and efficient asynchronous task processing library in Go.
 
-**Important Note**: Current major version is zero (v0.x.x) to accomodate rapid development and fast iteration while getting early feedback from users. The public API could change without a major version update before the release of verson 1.0.0.
+**Important Note**: Current major version is zero (v0.x.x) to accomodate rapid development and fast iteration while getting early feedback from users. The public API could change without a major version update before v1.0.0 release.
 
 ## Table of Contents
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Simple and efficent asynchronous task processing library in Go.
 - [Requirements](#requirements)
 - [Installation](#installation)
 - [Getting Started](#getting-started)
-- [Monitoring CLI](#monitoring-cli)
+- [Command Line Tool](#command-line-tool)
 - [Acknowledgements](#acknowledgements)
 - [License](#license)
 
@@ -24,21 +24,19 @@ Simple and efficent asynchronous task processing library in Go.
 
 ![Gif](/docs/assets/asynqmon_stats.gif)
 
-Asynq provides a simple interface to asynchronous task processing.
-
-It also ships with a tool to monitor the queues and take manual actions if needed.
+Package asynq provides a framework for asynchronous task processing.
 
 Asynq provides:
 
 - Clear separation of task producer and consumer
+- Ability to process multiple tasks concurrently
 - Ability to schedule task processing in the future
 - Automatic retry of failed tasks with exponential backoff
-- [Automatic failover](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Automatic-Failover) using Redis sentinels
-- [Ability to configure](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Task-Retry) max retry count per task
-- Ability to configure max number of worker goroutines to process tasks
+- [Ability to configure](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Task-Retry) task retry count and retry delay
 - Support for [priority queues](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Priority-Queues)
 - [Unix signal handling](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Signals) to gracefully shutdown background processing
-- [CLI tool](/tools/asynqmon/README.md) to query and mutate queues state for mointoring and administrative purposes
+- [Automatic failover](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Automatic-Failover) using Redis sentinels
+- [Command line tool](/tools/asynqmon/README.md) to query tasks for monitoring and troubleshooting purposes
 
 ## Requirements
 
@@ -49,7 +47,7 @@ Asynq provides:
 
 ## Installation
 
-To install both `asynq` library and `asynqmon` CLI tool, run the following command:
+To install both `asynq` library and `asynqmon` command line tool, run the following command:
 
 ```
 go get -u github.com/hibiken/asynq
@@ -66,13 +64,20 @@ In this quick tour of `asynq`, we are going to create two programs.
 **This guide assumes that you are running a Redis server at `localhost:6379`**.
 Before we start, make sure you have Redis installed and running.
 
-1. Import `asynq` in both files.
+The first thing we need to do is create two main files.
+
+```sh
+mkdir producer consumer
+touch producer/producer.go consumer/consumer.go
+```
+
+Import `asynq` in both files.
 
 ```go
 import "github.com/hibiken/asynq"
 ```
 
-2. Asynq uses Redis as a message broker.
+Asynq uses Redis as a message broker.
 Use one of `RedisConnOpt` types to specify how to connect to Redis.
 We are going to use `RedisClientOpt` here.
 
@@ -88,7 +93,25 @@ var redis = &asynq.RedisClientOpt{
 }
 ```
 
-3. In `producer.go`, create a `Client` instance to create and schedule tasks.
+In `producer.go`, we are going to create a `Client` instance to create and schedule tasks.
+
+In `asynq`, a unit of work to be performed is encapsluated in a struct called `Task`.
+Which has two fields: `Type` and `Payload`.
+
+```go
+// Task represents a task to be performed.
+type Task struct {
+    // Type indicates the type of task to be performed.
+    Type string
+
+    // Payload holds data needed to perform the task.
+    Payload Payload
+}
+```
+
+To create a task, use `NewTask` function and pass type and payload for the task.
+
+You schedule a task by calling `Client.Schedule` passing in the task and the timethe task neeeds to be processed.
 
 ```go
 // producer.go
@@ -118,7 +141,13 @@ func main() {
 }
 ```
 
-4. In `consumer.go`, create a `Background` instance to process tasks.
+In `consumer.go`, create a `Background` instance to process the tasks.
+
+`NewBackground` function takes `RedisConnOpt` and `Config`.
+
+You can take a look at documentation on `Config` to see the available options.
+
+We are only going to specify the concurrency in this example.
 
 ```go
 // consumer.go
@@ -239,19 +268,11 @@ func sendReminderEmail(t *asynq.Task) error {
 
 Now that we have both task producer and consumer, we can run both programs.
 
-```sh
-go run consumer.go
-```
-
-**Note**: This will not exit until you send a signal to terminate the program. See [Signal Wiki page](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Signals) for best practice on how to safely terminate background processing.
-
-With our consumer running, also run
-
 ```sh
 go run producer.go
 ```
 
-This will create a task and the first task will get processed immediately by the consumer. The second task will be processed 24 hours later.
+This will create two tasks: One that should processed immediately and another to be processed 24 hours later.
 
 Let's use `asynqmon` tool to inspect the tasks.
 
@@ -259,23 +280,37 @@ Let's use `asynqmon` tool to inspect the tasks.
 asynqmon stats
 ```
 
-This command will show the number of tasks in each state and stats for the current date as well as redis information.
+You should able to see that there's one task in **Enqueued** state and another in **Scheduled** state.
 
-To understand the meaning of each state, see [Life of a Task Wiki page](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Life-of-a-Task).
+Note: To understand the meaning of each state, see [Life of a Task](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Life-of-a-Task) on our Wiki page.
 
-For in-depth guide on `asynqmon` tool, see the [README](/tools/asynqmon/README.md) for the CLI.
+Let's run `asynqmon` with `watch` command so that we can continuously run the command to see the changes.
 
-This was a quick tour of `asynq` basics. To see all of its features such as **[priority queues](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Priority-Queues)** and **[custom retry](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Task-Retry)**, see [the Wiki page](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki).
+```sh
+watch -n 3 asynqmon stats # Runs `asynqmon stats` every 3 seconds
+```
 
-## Monitoring CLI
+And finally, let's start the consumer program to process scheduled tasks.
 
-Asynq ships with a CLI tool to inspect the state of queues and tasks.
+```sh
+go run consumer.go
+```
 
-To install the CLI, run the following command:
+**Note**: This will not exit until you send a signal to terminate the program. See [Signal Wiki page](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Signals) for best practice on how to safely terminate background processing.
+
+You should be able to see text printed in your terminal indicating that the task was processed successfully.
+
+This was a whirlwind tour of `asynq` basics. To learn more about all of its features such as **[priority queues](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Priority-Queues)** and **[custom retry](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Task-Retry)**, see our [Wiki page](https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki).
+
+## Command Line Tool
+
+Asynq ships with a command line tool to inspect the state of queues and tasks.
+
+To install, run the following command:
 
     go get github.com/hibiken/asynq/tools/asynqmon
 
-For details on how to use the tool, see the [README](/tools/asynqmon/README.md) for the asynqmon CLI.
+For details on how to use the tool, refer to the tool's [README](/tools/asynqmon/README.md).
 
 ## Acknowledgements
 

doc.go

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 /*
-Package asynq provides a framework for background task processing.
+Package asynq provides a framework for asynchronous task processing.
 
 Asynq uses Redis as a message broker. To connect to redis server,
 specify the options using one of RedisConnOpt types.

tools/asynqmon/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Asynqmon
 
-Asynqmon is a CLI tool to monitor the queues managed by `asynq` package.
+Asynqmon is a command line tool to monitor the tasks managed by `asynq` package.
 
 ## Table of Contents
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ This will create the asynqmon executable under your `$GOPATH/bin` directory.
 
 ## Quick Start
 
-Asynqmon tool has a few commands to inspect the state of tasks and queues.
+The tool has a few commands to inspect the state of tasks and queues.
 
 Run `asynqmon help` to see all the available commands.
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ By default, Asynqmon will try to connect to a redis server running at `localhost
 
 ### Stats
 
-Stats command gives the overview of the current state of tasks and queues. Run it in conjunction with `watch` command to repeatedly run `stats`.
+Stats command gives the overview of the current state of tasks and queues. You can run it in conjunction with `watch` command to repeatedly run `stats`.
 
 Example:
 
@@ -46,35 +46,93 @@ This will run `asynqmon stats` command every 3 seconds.
 
 ### History
 
-TODO: Add discription
+History command shows the number of processed and failed tasks from the last x days.
+
+By default, it shows the stats from the last 10 days. Use `--days` to specify the number of days.
+
+Example:
+
+    asynqmon history --days=30
+
+![Gif](/docs/assets/asynqmon_history.gif)
 
 ### List
 
-TODO: Add discription
+List command shows all tasks in the specified state in a table format
+
+Example:
+
+    asynqmon ls retry
+    asynqmon ls scheduled
+    asynqmon ls dead
+    asynqmon ls enqueued
+    asynqmon ls inprogress
 
 ### Enqueue
 
-TODO: Add discription
+There are two commands to enqueue tasks.
+
+Command `enq` takes a task ID and moves the task to **Enqueued** state. You can obtain the task ID by running `ls` command.
+
+Example:
+
+    asynqmon enq d:1575732274:bnogo8gt6toe23vhef0g
+
+Command `enqall` moves all tasks to **Enqueued** state from the specified state.
+
+Example:
+
+    asynqmon enqall retry
+
+Running the above command will move all **Retry** tasks to **Enqueued** state.
 
 ### Delete
 
-TODO: Add discription
+There are two commands for task deletion.
+
+Command `del` takes a task ID and deletes the task. You can obtain the task ID by running `ls` command.
+
+Example:
+
+    asynqmon del r:1575732274:bnogo8gt6toe23vhef0g
+
+Command `delall` deletes all tasks which are in the specified state.
+
+Example:
+
+    asynqmon delall retry
+
+Running the above command will delete all **Retry** tasks.
 
 ### Kill
 
-TODO: Add discription
+There are two commands to kill (i.e. move to dead state) tasks.
+
+Command `kill` takes a task ID and kills the task. You can obtain the task ID by running `ls` command.
+
+Example:
+
+    asynqmon kill r:1575732274:bnogo8gt6toe23vhef0g
+
+Command `killall` kills all tasks which are in the specified state.
+
+Example:
+
+    asynqmon killall retry
+
+Running the above command will move all **Retry** tasks to **Dead** state.
 
 ## Config File
 
-You can use a config file to set default values for flags.
+You can use a config file to set default values for the flags.
 This is useful, for example when you have to connect to a remote redis server.
 
 By default, `asynqmon` will try to read config file located in
-`$HOME/.asynqmon.(yml|json)`. You can specify the file location via `--config` flag.
+`$HOME/.asynqmon.(yaml|json)`. You can specify the file location via `--config` flag.
 
 Config file example:
 
-```yml
+```yaml
 uri: 127.0.0.1:6379
 db: 2
 password: mypassword