Scaling

Understanding Celery Prefork Workers and RabbitMQ

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Celery and RabbitMQ are often treated as a black box pairing. Tasks go in, work comes out, and most of the time that is enough. When things stop behaving as expected, however, developers are forced to reason about internal mechanics that are rarely explained in one place. Concepts like prefork workers, acknowledgments, prefetching, and RabbitMQ’s … Read more

Overloading the Node: The Hidden Engineering Behind Scalable Blockchain Workflows

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Modern blockchain applications often involve complex workflows for creating and managing digital assets on-chain. These assets can represent anything from tokenized financial instruments to digital collectibles. Beyond the complexities of writing the smart contract code itself, creating a real world digital asset typically involves multiple sequential steps, such as creating on-chain accounts, deploying smart contracts, … Read more