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Plain English definitions for background job scheduling, cron, and HTTP concepts.
A task that runs outside the main request cycle, freeing your app to respond instantly while work happens in the background.
A five-field string that defines a recurring schedule -- minute, hour, day of month, month, and day of week.
A holding area for jobs that have exhausted all retry attempts and still failed.
A background job scheduled to run at a specific time in the future rather than immediately.
A retry strategy where the delay between attempts doubles each time, preventing thundering herd problems.
The maximum time a client waits for a server to respond before giving up and treating the request as failed.
The property of an operation that produces the same result whether you run it once or multiple times.
A first-in, first-out buffer that holds background jobs until a worker is ready to process them.
A mechanism that caps how many requests a client can make to an API within a given time window.
A server-to-server HTTP callback that pushes event data to your URL the moment something happens.