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Multithreaded, Postgres-based, ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.

Language: Ruby

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Choose Postgres queue technology | Sep 2023
For Rails apps, you can do this using the ActiveJob interface via

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job

Had it in production for about a quarter and it’s worked well.

Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres | Aug 2023
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Idk about pgagent but any table is a resilient queue with the multiple locks available in pg along with some SELECT pg_advisory_lock or SELECT FOR UPDATE queries, and/or LISTEN/NOTIFY.

Several bg job libs are built around native locking functionality

> Relies upon Postgres integrity, session-level Advisory Locks to provide run-once safety and stay within the limits of schema.rb, and LISTEN/NOTIFY to reduce queuing latency.

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job

> |> lock("FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED")

https://github.com/sorentwo/oban/blob/8acfe4dcfb3e55bbf233aa...
Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq: From Employment to Independence | Apr 2023
Sidekiq Pro is great, we're paying for it! 10k a year I think.

But for people who are interested in alternatives, I'd also suggest Good Job (runs on Postgresql).

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job

SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue | Apr 2023
My hobby project does ~1.5M jobs per day enqueued into Postgres, no sweat. I use https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job which uses PG's LISTEN/NOTIFY to lower worker poll latency.
Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack? | Sep 2022
I used a weird stack of:

- Rails: so I have a UI quickly together with some admin and a interactive shell to allow me interact with the app easiser - GoodJobs:https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job Used this for any Rails based job - Postgres for everything. No Redis. I found redis is a source of pain when it misbehave and reach max mem with eviction policy. When Redis mem is big, restart it take quite a bit of time. - Huge server: I rent hetzner server and scale vertically. - Golang + sqlc: I used Rails SQL schema to pair it with golang sqlc https://sqlc.dev/ it makes write SQL way easier - Stimulus - Docker Compose for Rails deployment - SCP/Systemd for go-based servic

https://mailwip.com is my email forwarding saas app.

Delayed Job vs. Sidekiq | Feb 2022
I've been using Sidekiq for years, rock solid and no complaints.

However, this recent addition to the space seems to be gaining traction and appears to have an excellent feature set -

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job

Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL | Jun 2021
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Nowadays Rails has good_job[0], which lets you stick with Postgres for background jobs until you need more than a million-ish a day.

[0] https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job
Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL | Jun 2021
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Another alternative is GoodJob:

https://island94.org/2020/07/introducing-goodjob-1-0

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job