Category: Back-end development
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WP-Cron vs Spawned Background Jobs: How WordPress Really Runs “Background” Work
If background work on your WordPress site appears to take longer than you’d expect, the issue may not necessarily be the task, but how WordPress runs it. WP-Cron and spawned background jobs solve similar problems, but they operate very differently, and those differences show up most clearly in tail latency and reliability. Tail latency refers…
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Building Resilient API Downloads with Jitter Backoff and Smart Retries
Working with APIs, there are multiple reasons why you may not receive results when making a request (when the data exists). This can include network failures, timeouts, incomplete results, rate limits, server overload or throttling. If your potential solution to these issues is to retry immediately, you risk hammering the API harder, worsening the problem.…