Background Jobs in Go with Asynq and Valkey
Replace fragile goroutines with durable background jobs using Asynq and Valkey. Patterns from a production SaaS: lifecycle emails, bulk imports, and long-running API sync tasks.
·gobackendinfrastructure
hi! I'm Joseph.
Senior Platform Engineer based in the UK, building infrastructure platforms, developer tools, and open-source projects at the intersection of cloud, security, and AI.
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Recent Posts
Why I Built TaskWing
AI coding tools are powerful but forget everything between sessions. TaskWing gives them persistent memory.
·aideveloper toolsgo
I Fine-Tuned My Own LLM in a Weekend - Here's Everything I Learned
How I fine-tuned a 4B parameter model to turn transaction monitoring JSON into compliance narratives - for $0, in 70 minutes, on a free GPU.
·machine learningllmfine-tuning
Notes on Zero Trust Architecture on AWS
Comprehensive guide to Zero Trust Architecture on AWS covering IAM Identity Center, ACM, KMS, and practical RDS deployment examples.
·AWSZero Trust Architecturetutorial
Why did I switch from Node.js to Golang after 5 years?
A story about switching from Node.js to Golang after 5 years. Why I made the switch and what I like about it.
·GolangNode.jsProgramming Languages