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Postgres job queue benchmark cover: a FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED query with pg-boss and BullMQ throughput results

Backend & APIs

Postgres Job Queues in 2026: SKIP LOCKED vs pg-boss vs BullMQ (Redis and Postgres), Benchmarked

I benchmarked a hand-written SKIP LOCKED queue, pg-boss 12 and BullMQ 6 on both Redis and PostgreSQL: enqueue speed, throughput, pickup latency, crash recovery, transactional enqueue and storage per job.

Waseem Anjum

October 28, 202614 min read6 views

Cover: An AI automation pipeline that survives failure, with BullMQ worker code showing retries and rate limits

AI Engineering

Building an AI Automation Pipeline in Node.js with BullMQ: Queues, Retries and Rate Limits

How to move LLM calls out of request handlers and into a BullMQ queue: idempotent jobs, Retry-After aware backoff with jitter, worker rate limits, schema-validated model output and a dead-letter queue. Tested TypeScript code.

Waseem Anjum

October 18, 20266 min read6 views