Move Slow LLM Calls Off the Request Path with BullMQ in Node.js
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If an LLM call can take 20 seconds or more, keep it out of your HTTP handler. Put the work on a BullMQ queue backed by Redis, return a job ID right away with a 202 Accepted , and let a separate worker make the slow call while the client gets progress updates over Server-Sent Events. The rest of thi…
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- 2026-10-10 02:01 · DEV Community — AI
Move Slow LLM Calls Off the Request Path with BullMQ in Node.js