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A postgres-backed task queue for Python.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2024-08-19 · latest 2026-01-29

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  1. I kinda have my own https://github.com/tktech/chancy :P
    comment by TkTech · 2026-01-29 · in Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
  2. …to toot my own horn here, because it's what I know, but take my 100% free Chancy for example - https://github.com/tktech/chancy . Out of the box the same workers can mix-and-match asyncio, processes, threads, and sub-interpreters. It…
    comment by TkTech · 2026-01-28 · in Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
  3. …ORM. For Chancy in particular, retries are a (very trivial) plugin (that's enabled by default) - https://github.com/TkTech/chancy/blob/main/chancy/plugins/re... . You can swap it out and add whatever complex retry strategies you'd like.…
    comment by TkTech · 2025-11-29 · in A first look at Django's new background tasks
  4. …on workers with py3.14 and this one on workers with py3.11) etc etc... https://tkte.ch/chancy/ & https://github.com/tktech/chancy The pending v0.26 includes stabilizing of the HTTP API, dashboard improvements, workflow performance…
    comment by TkTech · 2025-11-29 · in A first look at Django's new background tasks
  5. …early to trigger polling, and this can be turned off globally with a notifications=false flag. [1]: https://github.com/tktech/chancy
    comment by TkTech · 2025-07-11 · in Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
  6. Gonna toss my own hat in the ring there for the python+postgres ecosystem :) https://github.com/tktech/chancy > As a rule of thumb, if you're processing less than 1000 jobs per day or your jobs are mostly lightweight operations (like…
    comment by TkTech · 2025-05-30 · in How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure
  7. …like Procrastinate [0] or Chancy [1]? [0] https://github.com/procrastinate-org/procrastinate/ [1] https://github.com/TkTech/chancy
    comment by followben · 2025-04-04 · in Show HN: Hatchet v1 – A task orchestration platform built on Postgres
  8. Also https://github.com/TkTech/chancy for another (early) Python option that goes the other way and aims to have bells and whistles included like a dashboard, workflows, mixed-mode workers, etc... Check out the Similar Projects section in…
    comment by TkTech · 2024-12-07 · in How to use Postgres for everything
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    Show HN: Chancy, a Postgres-backed, batteries-included task queue for Python
    story by TkTech · 2024-11-29 · 0 comments
  10. …often to work around issues encountered with Celery that I've split them into their own framework, https://github.com/TkTech/chancy (feedback appreciated ;) There are lots of these, several of which are commercial ventures so there's…
    comment by TkTech · 2024-11-04 · in Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub (2021)
  11. https://github.com/tktech/chancy is a very early-stage pet project to work around specific issues I keep running into with Celery that has all of this, including a simple plugin-extendable UI with DAG workflow visualization.
    comment by TkTech · 2024-08-19 · in Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue