Background Job Patterns That Won't Wake You Up at 3 AM
Background jobs are the janitors of your application. They handle the work that doesn’t need to happen immediately: sending emails, processing uploads, generating reports, syncing data. When they work, nobody notices. When they fail, everyone notices—usually at 3 AM. Here’s how to build jobs that let you sleep. The Fundamentals: Idempotency First Every background job should be safe to run twice. Network hiccups, worker crashes, queue retries—your job will execute more than once eventually. ...