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Eric Allam a3407287c9 feat(engine): enqueue fast path; skip the queue under certain conditions (#3299)
## Summary

Currently, every triggered run follows a two-step path through Redis:

1. **Enqueue** — A Lua script atomically adds the message to a queue
sorted set (ordered by priority-adjusted timestamp)
2. **Dequeue** — A debounced `processQueueForWorkerQueue` job fires
~500ms later, checks concurrency limits, removes the message from the
sorted set, and pushes it to a worker queue (Redis list) where workers
pick it up via `BLPOP`

This means every run pays at least ~500ms of latency between being
triggered and being available for a worker to execute, even when the
queue is empty and concurrency is wide open.

### What changed

The enqueue Lua scripts now atomically decide whether to **skip the
queue sorted set entirely** and push directly to the worker queue. This
happens inside the same Lua script that handles normal enqueue, so the
decision is atomic with respect to concurrency bookkeeping.

A run takes the **fast path** when all of these are true:
- **Fast path is enabled** for this worker queue (gated per
`WorkerInstanceGroup`)
- **No available messages** in the queue (`ZRANGEBYSCORE` finds nothing
with score ≤ now) — this respects priority ordering and allows fast path
even when the queue has future-scored messages (e.g. nacked retries with
delay)
- **Environment concurrency** has capacity
- **Queue concurrency** has capacity (including per-concurrency-key
limits for CK queues)

When the fast path is taken:
- The message is stored and pushed directly to the worker queue
(`RPUSH`)
- Concurrency slots are claimed (`SADD` to the same sets used by the
normal dequeue path)
- The `processQueueForWorkerQueue` job is **not scheduled** (no work to
do)
- TTL sorted set is skipped (the `expireRun` worker job handles TTL
independently)

When any condition fails, the existing slow path runs unchanged.

### Rollout gating

- **Development environments**: Fast path is always enabled
- **Production environments**: Gated by a new `enableFastPath` boolean
on `WorkerInstanceGroup` (defaults to `false`), allowing
region-by-region rollout

### Rolling deploy safety

Each process registers its own Lua scripts via `defineCommand`
(identified by SHA hash). Old and new processes never share scripts. The
Redis data structures are fully compatible in both directions — ack,
nack, and release operations work identically regardless of which path a
message took.

## Test plan

- [x] Fast path taken when queue is empty and concurrency available
- [x] Slow path when `enableFastPath` is false
- [x] Slow path when queue has available messages (respects priority
ordering)
- [x] Fast path when queue only has future-scored messages
- [x] Slow path when env concurrency is full
- [x] Fast-path message can be acknowledged correctly
- [x] Fast-path message can be nacked and re-enqueued to the queue
sorted set
- [x] Run all existing run-queue tests (ack, nack, CK, concurrency
sweeper, dequeue) to verify no regressions
- [x] Typecheck passes for run-engine and webapp
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webapp improvement

Reduce run start latency by skipping the intermediate queue when concurrency is available. This optimization is rolled out per-region and enabled automatically for development environments.