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Asynchronous job queues

The pattern of accepting a long-running request, recording it in durable state, and having a background worker complete it while the client polls or subscribes for the result.

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Returning 202 with a persisted job row outlives nginx's sixty-second timeout

A dev.to post argues a report generation request should be accepted as work and written to a row with an owner, a budget and an idempotency key before any worker calls the model, so a browser retry collides with the row that already exists and reads its status.

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Reality

Evidence52
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+8
Incentives22
Confidence58