Building CloudStash: A production-style cloud storage system with Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis & BullMQ

📰 Dev.to · Alpesh Borekar

Learn to build a production-style cloud storage system using Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and BullMQ

intermediate Published 25 Jun 2026

Action Steps

Build a RESTful API using Node.js and Express to handle file uploads and downloads
Configure PostgreSQL to store file metadata and user information
Implement Redis for caching and BullMQ for job queuing to handle background tasks
Test the system for scalability and performance using load testing tools
Deploy the application to a cloud platform such as AWS or Google Cloud

Who Needs to Know This

Backend developers and DevOps engineers can benefit from this tutorial to build scalable cloud storage systems

Key Insight

💡 Using a combination of Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and BullMQ can help build a scalable and efficient cloud storage system

Full Article

Building CloudStash Over the past few weeks I wanted to move beyond CRUD applications and...