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by edgyquant 877 days ago
It may just be out of habit and not any underlying language reasoning. Things like sending emails or doing anything but simple database operations make sense to do in a queue. For instance I’ve worked at multiple places where we did this using celery and python or bullmq/javascript. Some of them we did have a log that persisted for a certain amount of time so we could rerun e.g. emails that never got sent