What methods are used for managing background tasks in applications?

It highly depends on your tech stack and what those background tasks are doing. And because of that, there are many options: - Using task queues such as RabbitMQ or Amazon SQS. These will let you have workers in the background as secondary processes while your application continues working. - There are background job frameworks such as Celery for Python or Sidekiq for Ruby. - You can also just rely on cron jobs if you want. - If your programming language permits it, you can also use threads or workers to run these tasks in the background but within the same application.

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