BullMQ

Summary

A popular Redis-backed job/message queue library for Node.js — simpler to set up than RabbitMQ or Kafka, and a common first choice for background jobs in a Node backend.

How to Learn This

1Set up a BullMQ queue and worker to process a background job, e.g. sending an email.
2Add retry logic with exponential backoff for failed jobs.
3Use BullMQ's dashboard (Bull Board) to monitor job status.

Apache Kafka Basics

Pub/Sub vs Queue

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