NestJS · Senior · Question 31 of 75

How should BullMQ workers in Nest be deployed under load?

✓Correct answer: As separate processes or deployments from the HTTP API, scaled by queue depth, with concurrency limits and graceful shutdown
2Only one worker for the whole system
3Inside every HTTP pod with unlimited concurrency

Explanation

Separating workers keeps slow jobs from hurting API latency and lets each part scale on its own metric.

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