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Background Jobs and Scheduling

Background Jobs and Scheduling (Stub)

Move long-running or non-user-critical work off the request path to improve responsiveness.

To Be Expanded

  • Worker queues (e.g., Celery, Sidekiq, BullMQ)
  • Idempotency & retry semantics
  • Cron vs event-driven triggers
  • Distributed scheduling pitfalls

Placeholder Flow (Mermaid)

sequenceDiagram
  participant API
  participant Queue
  participant Worker
  API->>Queue: Enqueue job JSON
  Worker->>Queue: Reserve job
  Worker->>API: (optional callback)

Maintainers: Add failure handling patterns and monitoring metrics.