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When I was working on the web server yesterday, I had the advantage of following along with the book Zero to Production by Luca Palmieri. The book provided a reference implementation for many common patterns, for example integration tests and obversability. As someone who is building their first web application in Rust, I appreciate the guidance.
When I was working as a Ruby on Rails developer a few years ago, it was common practice to queue jobs for later. The motivation for this was simple: Keep the HTTP request cycle as short as possible. Complex tasks and work that could be done asynchronously was pushed into a job queue. One reasons for this was that it improved the user experience. Another that Sidekiq, the background job system, was just so good and reliable. And when a job failed due to a bug, it was possible to fix the bug and try again.
The downside of this approach is of course that it requires a background job system and a worker. Thus more moving pieces and more orchestration. But I have had great experiences with Sidekiq, and I am sure that its polyglot brother Faktory will work just as well.