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Language-agnostic persistent background job server

22 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 4 stories, 18 comments · first 2017-10-24 · latest 2026-01-28

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  1. …direction but by focusing on a single community, you may have better outcomes, time will tell! [0]: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory [1]: https://github.com/jonhoo/faktory-rs
    comment by mperham · 2026-01-28 · in Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python
  2. Guessing the Go experience is largely from faktory https://github.com/contribsys/faktory But I dunno you can just go ask him about it, assuming he still does those Friday morning “happy hour” calls :)
    comment by corytheboyd · 2025-03-25 · in Ruby, Ractors, and lock-free data structures
  3. …trees. Go is especially good because of the large stdlib (which I use to minimize deps in https://github.com/contribsys/faktory ) and excellent backwards compatibility.
    comment by mperham · 2024-11-19 · in The tragedy of running an old Node project
  4. …(Node.js) https://riverqueue.com/ (Go) https://github.com/acaloiaro/neoq (Go) https://github.com/contribsys/faktory (Go) https://github.com/sorentwo/oban (Elixir) https://github.com/procrastinate-org/procrastinate (Python)
    comment by TkTech · 2024-11-04 · in Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub (2021)
  5. …you may want to check out Faktory. It’s Mike Perham’s language-agnostic follow-up to Sidekiq. https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
    comment by anamexis · 2024-05-09 · in Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres
  6. Thanks, looks potentially interesting: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory And it's written in Go. :)
    comment by justinclift · 2024-04-15 · in Redis re-implemented with SQLite
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    Faktory: Language-agnostic persistent background job server
    story by thunderbong · 2023-12-25 · 0 comments
  8. …less well known faktory[0] which is language agnostic and has runners for both Ruby and Python [0] https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
    comment by byroot · 2023-12-25 · in Ruby 3.3
  9. …The binary for my modern, commercial background job engine written in Go, Faktory, is 5MB in size. https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/releases/tag/v1.8.0 I know when I see an iOS app that is 5-10MB in size, I know it was crafted by…
    comment by mperham · 2023-10-23 · in Software disenchantment
  10. …However, it seems like a solid solution. I've looked at Faktory as another great option as well: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/
    comment by princevegeta89 · 2020-09-12 · in Changelog for Elixir v1.11
  11. …is growing nicely - https://sidekiq.org is very solid and used in most Rails app I've seen - https://github.com/contribsys/faktory allows interop-jobs (e.g. create from Ruby, consume from something else), which is also interesting -…
    comment by thibaut_barrere · 2020-07-23 · in GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails
  12. …out Faktory. More advanced features like queue throttling and complex job workflows are available. https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki
    comment by mperham · 2020-01-03 · in RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python
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    Contribsys/faktory: “Takin' care of business, workin' overtime”
    story by vinnyglennon · 2019-12-19 · 0 comments
  14. …which supports first-class scheduled jobs and is designed for applications in any language. https://github.com/contribsys/faktory Both are open source and both have commercial support so they will be maintained for years to come.
    comment by mperham · 2019-07-13 · in Ask HN: Why are there so many queue services but almost none support scheduling?
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    Faktory: a background job system from the creator of Sidekiq
    story by spiffytech · 2019-01-31 · 0 comments
  16. …agnostic background processing framework with clients in multiple languages, including Javascript? https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
    comment by deedubaya · 2018-07-06 · in Show HN: TaskBotJS – TypeScript and JavaScript background job processing
  17. …have looked into: https://github.com/celrenheit/sandglass https://github.com/RichardKnop/machinery https://github.com/contribsys/faktory In the end I went with machinery due to supporting: - Batches (or Groups, tasks executed at the same…
    comment by no1youknowz · 2018-05-23 · in Centrifuge: a reliable system for delivering billions of events per day
  18. Seems similar to faktory ? https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
    comment by agnivade · 2017-12-11 · in Show HN: Sandglass – Distributed, scalable, persistent time-sorted message queue
  19. I would recommend checking out Faktory ( https://github.com/contribsys/faktory ), by the author of Sidekiq. It's fairly new but looks interesting. For something production-tested already, I've found RabbitMQ to be very easy to operate as a…
    comment by kennon42 · 2017-12-06 · in Redis PSYNC2 bug post mortem
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    Faktory: “Takin' care of business, workin' overtime”
    story by doppp · 2017-11-19 · 0 comments
  21. …things with that data; message queues that treat messages as a simple byte array can't do that. https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/The-Job-Payload
    comment by mperham · 2017-10-24 · in Faktory, a new background job system
  22. https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/issues/new
    comment by mperham · 2017-10-24 · in Faktory, a new background job system