Designing Asynchronous API Pipelines for High Throughput
A practical guide to moving heavy processing out of the request-response cycle using message queues.
Merchant Infotech
October 28, 2023
If your API endpoints are taking longer than 200ms, you are likely doing too much work synchronously. Modern software systems require decoupled, asynchronous processing to handle tasks like data ingestion, third-party API calls, and report generation.
We explore how to architect an event-driven pipeline using tools like Redis, BullMQ, and AWS SQS. We discuss the trade-offs between different retry strategies and how to handle poison messages without crashing your workers.
By the end of this article, you will understand how to identify bottlenecks in your current architecture and migrate them safely to a background job system.
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