5 articles tagged with ""redis""
Your users shouldn't stare at a spinner while you send a welcome email. Learn how to offload slow work to background jobs with BullMQ and Redis.
Our e-commerce backend was charging customers twice because two Lambda functions raced to process the same order simultaneously. Distributed locking saved us - and here's everything I learned the hard way.
Your queue workers are silently failing in production and you have NO idea. Laravel Horizon is the beautiful dashboard that gives you X-ray vision into your background jobs — and it takes 5 minutes to set up.
I watched a $12/month RDS bill turn into $340 in a single flash sale. Same queries. Same code. Just 10x the traffic. ElastiCache saved my career. Here's everything I wish I'd known before Black Friday.
Sending emails inside a request handler? Resizing images on the main thread? Let's talk about BullMQ — Redis-backed job queues that'll save your API response times and your sanity.