> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developer.upsun.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Shawn Ogasawara

> Articles written by Shawn Ogasawara.

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        <span className="text-xs text-subtle">Thursday, February 5th 2026</span>
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      <h3 className="blog-card-title group-hover:text-accent transition-colors">Unstable website? Use queues.</h3>
      <p className="blog-card-desc">Your site throws 502 errors when external APIs are slow. The fix isn't more resources. It's offloading that work to background jobs so your responses stay fast.</p>
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