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Flat illustration of a friendly worker taking numbered task tickets from a tidy waiting line and completing them one by one at a desk

Queues and background jobs: don't make the user wait

Lesson 4 of when it breaks: why a vibe-coded app should hand slow jobs to a queue instead of making the user wait. What a background job is, and why it keeps an app responsive under load.

Sam Ortega · 1h ago · 4 min