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            "value": "\n          <p>Do you have long-running or performance-heavy tasks in your application?<\/p>\n\n<p>What about performing complex actions when a user completes a task, such as submitting a form?<\/p>\n\n<p>What if the action took several seconds or minutes to complete?<\/p>\n\n<p>The user would assume their submission failed and may either leave or submit the form again and cause duplicate submissions.<\/p>\n\n<p>Instead, maybe use a queue.<\/p>\n\n<p>When the user submits the form, all you need to do is create a queue item for that submission and let the form submit as normal.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the background, the queue items will be processed when they can take more time or memory to perform the tasks and without blocking the user - giving them a better experience.<\/p>\n\n<p>Drupal supports queues by default, storing queue items in its database.<\/p>\n\n<p>For an example, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/project\/private_message_queue\">Private Message Queue module<\/a> on Drupal.org.<\/p>\n\n<p>I wrote it for a client project to use queues when sending private messages to event attendees, which could be hundreds per event.<\/p>\n\n<p>Without a queue, the request would have taken a long time to complete, or likely timed out.<\/p>\n\n        ",
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