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A technical write-up describing a double-buffered queue pattern for collecting and segmenting telemetry events by UTC hour using Cloudflare Workers, Queues, Workflows, and R2, routing payloads via modulo math and compressing batches into a low-cost partitioned data lake.
Vercel Daemons enters public beta, letting developers run background workers that pull jobs from queues, databases, or third-party systems, with a nod to the MIT-coined term "daemon" from 1963.
A detailed technical blog post explaining how to scale PostgreSQL-backed queues using SKIP LOCKED and proper transaction isolation levels, achieving 30K workflow executions per second.
A technical blog post exploring the hidden complexity of job queues, discussing why they are deceptively tricky and offering useful lenses for system design such as being wary of queues, limits, and fault models.
An article explaining why queues are not an effective solution for handling system overload and discussing better approaches.
Aquifer is an MCP runtime that provides bounded queues, fairness controls, and dynamic pacing to handle rate limits and traffic spikes in AI agent systems. It also introduces the Aqueduct Protocol for dynamic flow state communication.
A technical blog post explaining the benefits of using stacks and queues over recursion for tree traversal, with code examples in Rust.