Azure/Heroku Service Bus

Michael Bogan
10 min readJul 3, 2021

Background Jobs in Heroku with Azure Service Bus

Web applications are optimized for throughput and latency to service a high number of HTTP requests as quickly as possible. For improved performance, web applications defer the CPU intensive, IO intensive, time-intensive, and scheduled processing workloads to background jobs that run independently of the user interface. These background jobs must function without intervention from the user interface and should not block a synchronous user and system interaction. Offloading slow and compute or…

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Michael Bogan

25 years of startups, products, and software architecture. Currently run DevSpotlight — tech content for tech companies. michael@devspotlight.com.