Job-Queue

Building a Durable Job Queue in Postgres: A Portfolio Project That Signals Real Systems Skill

Build a production-flavored job queue on Postgres from scratch: schema, worker loop, retries with exponential backoff, and a dead-letter queue. A portfolio project that demonstrates real distributed systems thinking.

Architecture diagram of a Postgres-backed durable job queue

Build a Durable Postgres Job Queue: A Portfolio Project That Signals Real Systems Skill

Build a production-flavored job queue on Postgres with SKIP LOCKED, exponential backoff, and a dead-letter queue. A substantive portfolio project that demonstrates real backend systems skill.

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