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Web-Queue-Worker Architecture Style for Scaling

Web-Queue-Worker is an excellent architecture pattern you can add to your toolbox. It’s just a pattern and can work with a monolith, modular monolith, microservices, or whatever. It provides many benefits for scaling by moving work into the background and if you have long-running jobs, workflows, or even recurring batch jobs. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel, where I post all kinds of content accompanying my posts, including this video showing everything in this post. Flow Here’s the flow of the Web-Queue-Worker pattern in its simplest form. We have a client make a request to our HTTP API (Web), which generates a… Read More »Web-Queue-Worker Architecture Style for Scaling

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