I used to treat background work like a quiet helper.
Schedule it. Queue it. Trust it to run when the user isn’t watching.
That trust didn’t last.
The first time a background task simply never ran, I assumed a bug. The second time, I blamed configuration. The third time, I realized something harder to accept.
The system wasn’t failing me. It was doing exactly what it was...
The office was almost silent that winter night. A few monitors glowed in sleep mode, casting faint patches of blue light across the floor. I sat at a long table still cluttered with paper cups from earlier in the evening. The tech lead stood behind me with his arms crossed, leaning forward as we studied a profiler graph that pulsed with small dips and long stretches of hesitation. Every...
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