I think OP took a satirical take to it. That's why the blog post is about using a private, local HTTP API to make a task asynchronous. I mean you're already on

I think OP took a satirical take to it. That's why the blog post is about using a private, local HTTP API to make a task asynchronous. I mean you're already on the same machine, there must be easier way to create a background process instead of going to your network card and back...