Building an AI Automation Pipeline in Node.js with BullMQ: Queues, Retries and Rate Limits
Most AI automation demos are one await away from breaking. A webhook comes in, the handler calls a model, the response gets written to the database,…
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Most AI automation demos are one await away from breaking. A webhook comes in, the handler calls a model, the response gets written to the database,…
I have used Redis on almost every backend project I can remember. Caching, sessions, rate limiting, queues, the occasional bit of temporary state th…
Processing inbound e-commerce order webhooks directly against downstream ERP systems (such as Odoo or SAP) exposes core applications to third-party…
Every backend eventually hits the same wall: the database cannot keep up, but the data barely changes. That is the moment caching stops being an opt…
The Problem: The App Dies There was an incident that caused our application to fail because our Redis cache went down. It was in the middle of movin…
The real economics of Redis tiered storage, and why you might be paying too much for hot data The concept of splitting data resident in a Redis™ clu…
Redis vs Memcached: Complete Comparison In the high-stakes world of modern application development, performance and scalability are paramount. Devel…
I recently built a temporary message-sharing API from scratch using NestJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma and Redis . The idea is simple: Create a message, gen…
This article explores how a per-entity index improves Redis cache invalidation by replacing repeated full-keyspace scans with targeted lookups. All…
Agent loops burn tokens and clock cycles on repeated work. The same LLM prompt fires twice, the same tool call fetches identical data, and session s…
Redis can make a backend dramatically faster. It can also make a backend dramatically more fragile if the architecture treats the cache as a depende…
[ EXECUTIVE TEARDOWN // TL;DR ] In-memory broadcast only reaches the local process — multi-instance real-time needs a shared backplane (Redis pub/su…
Part 5 of 7 · ← Latency under load · Next: Operational simplicity → Part 5. The shortest post in the series, and the least arguable number in it — b…
Nexus Core v1.7.0: Moving from MongoDB-Centric to Multi-Database Architecture Today I released Nexus Core v1.7.0 , and this is one of the most impor…
A few weeks ago, I ran into a frustrating problem. Every time I needed a fast standalone Key-Value cache for my pet projects or microservices, I had…
Большинство backend‑проектов начинаются предсказуемо: HTTP‑запрос, бизнес‑логика, SQL и ответ клиенту. Но что изменится, если вместо очере…
What 3 Database Race Conditions Taught Me About Distributed Locks When you start building backend systems with asynchronous workflows, everyone tell…
📝 Originally published (in Japanese) at forge.workstyle.tech . I'm building an AI avatar stream that runs unattended. No human broadcaster — the ava…
There are already good Redis tools for NestJS. Most of them mainly help you connect NestJS to Redis and use the Redis client. That's useful, but as…
You are in a Staff Engineer system design interview. The interviewer draws a simple architecture on the whiteboard: an API, a Redis cache, and a Pos…
Shopify just did something that would make most engineers do a double-take: they replaced Redis with MySQL for their inventory reservation system, a…
Analogy Imagine you have built a backend API that works perfectly. You deploy it. Users start coming in. At first, everything feels fast. Then the t…
Every senior backend interview I've done in the last 18 months asked at least one Redis question and one Kafka question. Below are the 10 that came…
This is Part 2 of the Directus + Coolify series. If you're new here, start with "Secure Your VPS Before Hackers Do" and the first Directus + Coolify…
Engineering posts often end with: The new design is correct, scalable, and fast. Fast compared with what? When we changed Podium so tied players ran…
"We use Redis Cluster" can mean two very different things: Our dataset is distributed across Redis nodes. Every individual data structure is distrib…
A leaderboard looks like a one-command problem: ZADD weekly 100 alice ZADD weekly 100 bob ZREVRANGE weekly 0 -1 WITHSCORES While building Podium , a…
Celery + Redis: Background Tasks Made Simple tags: python, celery, redis, tutorial tags: python, celery, redis, tutorial Celery + Redis: Background…
The failure that pushed me into this design was not subtle. I had a blended embedding that kept returning candidate matches that looked reasonable a…
Hello everyone! After publishing my Machine Learning with ML.NET series, I decided to turn the recommendation model into a complete application. In…