# 9. Queues & Workers

A Queue+Worker infrastructure is meant:

* to run asynchronous jobs,
* scale up & down easily.

A `message` contains the data required to run a job. A `Queue` is where the messages are posted, its like a job board. A `Worker` performs all the heavy lifting and finishes the job based on the `message`.


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