Background jobs and some intrastructure info

This article discusses the challenges of scaling background job processing in a small application that outgrew Heroku's free Redis tier due to connection limits. It compares Heroku's expensive Redis plans with AWS alternatives like ElastiCache and MemoryDB, noting the lack of public endpoints and the need for VPC setup. The author then presents Render.com as a more affordable, plug-and-play solution with higher connection limits. The article concludes by weighing the trade-offs between migrating to a full cloud infrastructure versus incremental upgrades, targeting developers managing growing applications.