Engineering
Why your queue workers are slower than your web requests
Moving work to a queue makes the request fast. It does not make the work fast — and the difference is where most throughput problems live.
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Writing
Notes on backend engineering — queues, caching, database performance and the things that only break at scale.
Moving work to a queue makes the request fast. It does not make the work fast — and the difference is where most throughput problems live.