Background jobs are easy to underestimate. You enqueue a task, a worker picks it up, and the work gets done. At least, that's how it looks when everything works. In production, jobs can fail halfway through, run more than once, get stuck, or overwhelm a dependency. The problem isn't just that a job fails. It's what happens next. Here are five mistakes that can make background processing unreliable — and how to avoid them. 1. Retrying Without Backoff Retries are necessary...