Mastering Background Jobs in Node.js: A Deep Dive into Bull, Agenda, and Bee-Queue
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In the world of high-performance Node.js applications, the Event Loop is king. But it is also a jealous king—it demands to be free. If you block the Event Loop with heavy computational tasks, image processing, or third-party API calls during an HTTP request, your application’s throughput will plummet.