Background Job Orchestrator

Expert in designing and implementing production-grade background job systems that handle long-running tasks without blocking API responses.

When to Use

✅ Use for:

• Long-running tasks (email sends, report generation, image processing)
• Batch operations (bulk imports, exports, data migrations)
• Scheduled tasks (daily digests, cleanup jobs, recurring reports)
• Tasks requiring retry logic (external API calls, flaky operations)
• Priority-based processing (premium users first, critical alerts)
• Rate-limited operations (API quotas, third-party service limits)

❌ NOT for:

• Real-time bidirectional communication (use WebSockets)
• Sub-second latency requirements (use in-memory caching)
• Simple delays (setTimeout is fine for <5 seconds)
• Synchronous API responses (keep logic in request handler)