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Migration Step 1

Both scenarios define a migration step at this stage. Distributed Job Queue Platform: triggered by 'Background jobs competing with user-facing API requests for '. Developer Tools Platform: triggered by 'First noisy neighbor incident where one tenant's CI burst de'.

Migration Step 2

Both scenarios define a migration step at this stage. Distributed Job Queue Platform: triggered by 'High-priority transactional jobs (e.g., payment processing, '. Developer Tools Platform: triggered by 'Kafka publish failures rolling back pipeline completion tran'.

Migration Step 3

Both scenarios define a migration step at this stage. Distributed Job Queue Platform: triggered by 'Multi-step jobs (e.g., ingest file → validate → transform → '. Developer Tools Platform: triggered by 'Log search returning results from other tenants' pipelines d'.

Worker idle rate > 20% despite queue depth > 10k pending jobs; PostgreSQL pg_locks showing wait events on job table index; worker job claim p99 latency > 50ms (claim should be sub-10ms with correct indexing); CPU on PostgreSQL elevated from index scan overhead on job claim queries

Tier 1: Job Claim Lock Contention: Missing or misconfigured partial index on the job claim query; high worker concurrency driving SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED contention on a narrow hot page. Recommended evolution: Add a partial index on (priority DESC, created_at ASC) WHERE status = 'pending' AND run_at <= NOW(): the WHERE clause reduces the index to only claimable jobs, dramatically reducing index scan range; if contention persists, implement a job dispatch service (single dispatcher process) that batches claim queries and distributes job IDs to workers via an in-memory channel, removing per-worker database claims; tune FILLFACTOR on the job table to 70% to reduce hot page contention on SKIP LOCKED .

High-priority job queue depth growing despite workers available; low-priority batch jobs showing high throughput while transactional job latency (time from enqueue to execution start) p95 > 30s; worker pool metrics showing workers claiming jobs uniformly across priority levels rather than draining the high- priority queue first

Tier 2: Priority Inversion Under Load: Single worker pool consuming from all priority queues with equal weight; no priority-weighted polling implementation. Recommended evolution: Separate worker pools per priority tier (e.g., dedicated transactional workers for high-priority jobs, shared workers for low-priority batch); or implement priority-weighted polling in a unified worker pool (poll high-priority queue N times before polling low-priority queue once, where N is the priority weight ratio); add high-priority job execution latency as a first-class SLA metric with alerting threshold separate from batch job latency .

Redis job queue depth > 1000 correlated with a single tenant identifier; other tenants reporting p99 job start time > 60 seconds; tenant-level queue metrics showing one tenant holding > 50% of in-flight worker slots

Tier 1: Job Queue Tenant Noisy Neighbor: Shared Redis queue with shared worker pool allowing one tenant to monopolize available capacity. Recommended evolution: Implement per-tenant queue lanes in Redis (separate key namespaces per tenant, e.g., jobs:{tenant_id}:{priority}); implement a weighted fair scheduler at the worker dispatch layer that reads from tenant queues in round-robin order with priority weighting; cap the number of concurrently executing jobs per tenant to the tenant's quota, not to the total available worker count .

DDL migration duration > 10s on pipeline_runs, jobs, or artifacts tables; migration deployment causing timeout errors for active CI pipeline API calls during the deployment window; pg_locks showing AccessExclusiveLock held by ALTER TABLE statement

Tier 2: PostgreSQL Schema Migration Lock: High-volume tables requiring locking DDL changes during deployments with concurrent tenant activity. Recommended evolution: Adopt zero-downtime migration patterns exclusively: add columns with nullable defaults first (no table lock in PostgreSQL 11+), then backfill, then add constraints via NOT VALID followed by VALIDATE CONSTRAINT in a separate transaction; use pg_repack for table rewrites; never run concurrent index creation without CONCURRENTLY on any table with > 1M rows .