Milan Jovanović 5/23/2026

How to Scale Long-Running API Requests

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This article provides a comprehensive guide on handling long-running API requests that can block server resources and degrade performance. It starts with the naive blocking approach and progresses through steps including accepting work via job queues, background processing, polling endpoints, and fully decoupled worker pools. The article emphasizes trade-offs at each stage, aiming to prevent traffic spikes from crashing the API. It also briefly mentions Redis Cloud for rate limiting and Azure Copilot agents, but the core content is a technical tutorial on async API design.

How to Scale Long-Running API Requests

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