Build reliable async job queues with BullMQ

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When you need durable background job queuing with exponential backoff, dead-letter queues, and multi-worker concurrency control on Redis.

• · Job data (ID, payload)
• · Queue configuration
• · Worker concurrency limits

• · Queued job objects
• · Job completion status
• · Failed job logs

• · BullMQ
• · Redis
• · ioredis

• · Redis server running
• · Node.js/TypeScript environment
• · Valid Redis URL in env

• · Redis connection drop causes jobs to stall
• · Missing maxRetriesPerRequest crashes workers on reconnect
• · Orphaned jobs if worker killed without graceful shutdown

• · Production patterns (Basic Queue, Delayed Jobs, Graceful Shutdown)