[Guide] Stop 502 errors with queues ⚡

Is your website throwing 502 errors whenever an external API starts lagging? It is a common engineering grind where slow dependencies choke your server and kill your response times. The fix is not adding more resources. It is about changing how you handle work. Stop making users wait for external processes to finish. Offload heavy tasks to background jobs and queues. Distinguish between workers and crons to optimize your flow. Keep your main thread fast and responsive. Moving work to a queue ens