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Background Jobs Patterns
Background job patterns covering queue design, worker implementation, error handling, monitoring, and production best practices with BullMQ and Celery.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
Background Jobs: Make jobs idempotent (safe to retry). Use exponential backoff for retries. Set timeouts to prevent stuck jobs. Dead letter queue for failed jobs. Graceful shutdown (finish current job). Separate queues by priority/type. Monitor queue depth and processing time. Store job results only when needed.
Use When
- Async processing
- Email sending
- Image/video processing
- Report generation
- Webhook delivery
Skip When
- Synchronous requirements
- Simple tasks (<100ms)
- No retry requirements
Background Jobs Patterns
Background job patterns covering queue design, worker implementation, error handling, monitoring, and production best practices with BullMQ and Celery.