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Your Infrastructure is Bottlenecking Your AI Agent

Eric Tech

Jun 24, 2026

Many developers build brittle webhook handlers that process events synchronously, leading to catastrophic failure under load. By decoupling event ingestion from processing using a Redis queue, you ensure your system remains responsive even during massive traffic spikes.

Key insight: If your waiter also had to cook every meal in the kitchen before taking the next order, the restaurant would fail; your API server works the same way.