Background workers

A step of the Cloud application tree on Gradus, in the Serving & compute area: HTTP, workers, scaling.

Add a background job/worker queue so slow or non-urgent work runs asynchronously instead of blocking a request.

Usually comes after: Routing & middleware.

Leads to: Container orchestration, Scheduled jobs.

Prompt for your AI assistant

Add a background job queue (such as a Redis-backed worker) for long-running or non-urgent tasks, and move one existing slow operation onto it.

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This is https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/background-workers as plain HTML. In a browser the page also lets you mark the step forged and copy a message for your AI assistant.