Manuel Astudilllo - Taskforce.sh Blog

BullMQ Pro Edition

The open source libraries Bull and BullMQ have enjoyed a huge success over the years solving tricky scalability problems for micro-services in a simple and robust way. The libraries are used, to the best of my knowledge, by thousands of companies as a de-facto standard for queues handling within the

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Implementing a robust and scalable Webhooks/Notification system in NodeJS

(c) Eric Scales. Get it at Etsy A lot of modern REST APIs need to perform asynchronous operations, instead of unreliably keeping a long living http connection to the server waiting for it to complete, it is common to instead implement a notification system using webhooks. Notifications can be used

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Obliterate!

I never though I would even create a piece of code that "obliterates" anything, but here it is anyway! I just released a new method for Bull/BullMQ to "obliterate" your queues. The name is chosen so that it is used carefully, since this will indeed completely destroy your queue

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Implementing a mail microservice in NodeJS with BullMQ (3/3)

Tutorial for sending HTML as PDFs attachments using nodemailer and BullMQ.

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Implementing a mail microservice in NodeJS with BullMQ (2/3)

In this second post we are going to show you how to add rate limiting, retries after failure and delay jobs so that emails are sent in a future point in time. The code for this tutorial is available at https://github.com/taskforcesh/bullmq-mailbot branch part2. And there is

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BullMQ Redis™ Module

I am excited to announce that I started the development of a Redis™ Module that implements BullMQ in Zig. You can access it here: https://github.com/taskforcesh/bullmq-redis I had this idea since Redis modules where announced back in version 5.0, as it provides the means to resolve

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Implementing a mail microservice in NodeJS with BullMQ (1/3)

In this post we are going to create a small service for sending emails using BullMQ to demonstrate some core concepts. The idea is quite simple, we will have one queue where we will post jobs for sending emails and then a processor that performs the actual job of sending