async

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python fastapi render timeout async task-queue architecture

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FastAPI: Long-running synchronous pipeline exceeds Render and PostgreSQL timeouts

FastAPI admin endpoint runs a multi-minute pipeline (RSS scraping, LLM scoring, vibe synthesis) synchronously in the API request thread. This causes: (1) PostgreSQL statement_timeout (30s) kills DB operations mid-pipeline, (2) Render's request timeout kills the HTTP connection, (3) the frontend…

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