Learn how Amazon SQS works in real-world applications with simple TypeScript examples. Understand producers, consumers, queues, visibility timeout, dead letter queues, and scalable background processing through a practical e-commerce example.
A healthcare platform leans on a lot of AWS. Here is how S3, SES, SQS, Rekognition and EventBridge Scheduler fit into a NestJS API — what each one is actually for, and how to keep them testable.
Most “background job” problems are really two problems — work that should happen now-but-not-inline, and work that should happen later. Here is how I solve both on AWS without running a single always-on worker.