Show HN: Resilient AI Worker Queue with Redis, BullMQ, and Budget Kill Switches

Category: infrastructure

Tags: bullmq, redis, ai-agents, job-queue, fault-tolerance

Score: 5.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 5, Documentation: 5, Utility: 5)

A TypeScript template for building fault-tolerant AI job queues using BullMQ and Redis, featuring automatic model failover, jittered exponential backoff, and a token-budget kill switch. It addresses common production pain points like rate-limited providers and runaway costs, but the implementation is a combination of existing tools rather than a novel system.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, ai engineers

Repository: https://github.com/sidsri14/resilient-ai-worker-kit · TypeScript · MIT

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