Why Cloud Tasks over long HTTP requests
Publishing pipelines contain long-running steps: retrieval, drafting, validation, PDF rendering. Running these as a single HTTP request is fragile. Cloud Tasks gives us retries, dead-letter behavior, and predictable execution—while keeping APIs responsive.
- Retries: transient failures are expected; retries should be safe by default.
- Idempotency: each task can be retried without double-advancing state.
- Isolation: long compute runs do not block interactive user workflows.
How it shows up in the product
Authors see stable progress indicators instead of hung pages. Engineers see structured logs and measurable queues instead of unbounded request latency.