System Design: Background Job-Processing Workers! Basic application setups fail when executing long-running tasks like email delivery sequentially inside the user request loop. Slow downstream services cause high latency, while API timeouts trigger immediate request failures for the end user. Never risk data drift by pushing straight to a message queue after a database save, because a crash between those two actions drops the task completely. Instead, implement the Transactional Outbox pattern t

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