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Engineering write-ups on durable execution, reliability, agentic systems, security, and infrastructure, from the team building Vectorbea.
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Jun 16, 2026·7 min read·Infrastructure
When One Slow Workflow Stalls Everyone: Fair Scheduling for a Shared Worker Fleet
A handful of long-running AI workflows could make everything else feel slow, even with capacity to spare. This is the story of head-of-line blocking on our worker fleet and how we removed it.
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Apr 7, 2026·5 min read·Infrastructure
Worker Scaling with Redis Streams: Consumer Groups, PEL, and When to Reach for Kafka
How Vectorbea's worker fleet pulls work from Redis Streams, consumer groups, the pending entries list, retry and DLQ handling, and the honest answer to 'why not Kafka?'
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