What are the advantages of using Jenkins to run processes in the background?

Question

I’m having contact with a web system where they use Jenkins to execute processes in the background, in this case, queries to generate reports. The user makes the request and the processing is done by Jenkins.

I have used threads to perform such processing. The request was made and when the processing ended the user received a notification via email.

What are the advantages of using Jenkins in this case? Is there a specific article for this type of use? What are the terms I should search for?

Answer 1

The only advantage I see is that it stays in the control of the devs to generate these reports, are usually quite heavy for the database to be generated and this can bring down the application if a user keeps pressing generate all the time or try to generate at a peak time of the application.