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I’ve been developing using asynchronous jobs quite a bit lately.1 There is only one reason to do work asynchronous. It takes too long to do it synchronously. Fortunately, it turns out that many of these very large work loads are embarrassingly parallel problems. And look, you have several (dozen) workers just waiting to do your [...]