AI Agents Require Task Queues For Reliability

This article explains why AI-driven workloads need a task queue and how to build one using Node.js. It details failure modes—APIs return intermittent errors, LLM calls take 200ms to 30+ seconds, and token usage can span 500–50,000 tokens—then shows queue features like adaptive throttling, context preservation, deduplication, retries, and dead-letter handling to improve observability and deterministic retries.