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…says: "pg-boss and Oban are the Postgres-side gold standards" -- but Oban supports SQLite now too https://github.com/oban-bg/oban

comment by arlobish · 2026-04-30 · in Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file

…background job library, and the thing I often miss most when working in other ecosystems. [1] https://github.com/oban-bg/oban

comment by mmcclure · 2025-08-08 · in Build durable workflows with Postgres

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Oban: Robust job processing in Elixir, backed by PostgreSQL, SQLite3, MySQL

story by tosh · 2025-06-10 · 0 comments

…thing to be distributed between multiple nodes. It must in my view at least, as that's how Oban ( https://github.com/oban-bg/oban ) in Elixir models this kind of problem. Full disclosure, I'm an author and maintainer of the project. It's…

comment by sorentwo · 2025-06-09 · in Go is a good fit for agents

…* https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq * https://github.com/riverqueue/river * https://github.com/oban-bg/oban * https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgagent * https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron etc. There are plenty of options to choose fro

comment by zie · 2025-05-30 · in How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure

…(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)

…job queue libraries to share a common schema. For instance, I’m a big fan of Oban in Elixir: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban Given that there are many Sidekiq-compatible libraries across various languages, it might be beneficial to have a…

comment by cklee · 2024-08-18 · in Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue

In Elixir land Oban[0] uses Postgres as queue and seems to work quite well. [0] - https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by jnsaff2 · 2024-02-10 · in Postgres as queue

…(probably others but that's the ones I've used) [0] https://github.com/fanduel/quantum-elixir [1] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by conradfr · 2023-11-29 · in Deno Cron

…colleague just built something similar in Go that was on the front page yesterday (River)[2]. [1] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban [2] https://github.com/riverqueue/river

comment by mmcclure · 2023-11-22 · in Fast self-hostable open-source workflow engine

…same option names - Table-backed leadership election Please give some credit where it's due. [1]: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by sorentwo · 2023-11-20 · in River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres

…prevent NOTIFY ever triggering, and the extra db load of trigger handling wasn't worth it. [1]: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban/commit/7688651446a76d766f39...

comment by sorentwo · 2023-11-20 · in River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres

…I can recommend checking out Oban in Elixir that has been running in production for many years: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban Benchmark: peaks at around 17,699 jobs/sec for one queue on one node. Probably covers most apps.…

comment by victorbjorklund · 2023-11-20 · in River: A fast, robust job queue for Go and Postgres

…to have more "stateful" background works in Elixir, too. A popular background job queue is https://github.com/sorentwo/oban (roughly similar to Sidekiq at al), which uses Postgres. It handles retries, errors etc. But it's not the only…

comment by thibaut_barrere · 2023-11-10 · in Switching to Elixir

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Show HN: A simple API/CLI for scheduling HTTP requests

story by areichert · 2023-09-27 · 3 comments

…node to fetch available jobs will grab and lock all 10, with the other 2 nodes sitting idle. [1] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban [2] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban/blob/main/lib/oban/engines/... [3]…

comment by afhammad · 2023-09-25 · in Choose Postgres queue technology

…reduce queuing latency. https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job > |> lock("FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED") https://github.com/sorentwo/oban/blob/8acfe4dcfb3e55bbf233aa...

comment by ransackdev · 2023-08-18 · in Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres

…I've heard many stories of massive infra savings due to moving to an Elixir/Erlang system. 1. https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by afhammad · 2023-04-24 · in Keep the monolith, but split the workloads

Take a look at Oban, it very well might fit the bill. https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by joisig · 2022-08-18 · in Supabase – Realtime: Multiplayer Edition

Oban[1] from the Elixir ecosystem leans on Postgres for job scheduling [1] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by sbaildon · 2021-12-17 · in Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)

You could use something like oban: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by hanrelan · 2021-09-22 · in How we got to LiveView

…it doesn’t quite have the usage of Celery and Sidekiq but most queueing libraries don’t. [0] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by derethanhausen · 2021-06-12 · in Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL

For Elixir, Oban is a great library that allows the same, in case anyone was looking for one. https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by pablodavila · 2021-06-12 · in Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL

…crappy undocumented and untested version of delayed_job. Spotted the guy who never heard of Oban https://github.com/sorentwo/oban Benefit of the doubt: Perhaps it didn't exist yet. > Most of what you get from elixir in terms of redundancy,…

comment by pmarreck · 2021-05-19 · in Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?

…some of those things. You do not have a queue built it but there are some very good tools like Oban https://github.com/sorentwo/oban that are basically doing what Sidekiq does, just relying on the main database you are already using. There…

comment by pmarino90 · 2021-05-18 · in Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?

…workflow engine that leverages a partially open-source job processing library called Oban ( https://github.com/sorentwo/oban ).

comment by enraged_camel · 2021-04-19 · in Show HN: Side project passed $2.5k/mo revenue after 2 years (Phoenix and Vue)

Oban is a Postgres-backed job processing library https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by notamy · 2021-03-09 · in Write libraries instead of services, where possible

…he still offers advice and guidance around the project because it is in the Elixir community. 1: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by pselbert · 2021-02-09 · in José Valim Reveals “Project Nx” (Numerical Elixir) [audio]

…your application server doesn't mean you need to or that it's a good fit for every project. 1. https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by bostonvaulter2 · 2020-11-16 · in Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails

…ready app. Typically you'd use Redis, Postgres or something else to help with this. Fortunately https://github.com/sorentwo/oban exists and uses Postgres as a back-end with close to 10,000 lines of Elixir.

comment by nickjj · 2020-10-01 · in A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir

…plenty of options, though I’m especially fond of Oban[0] (full disclosure, I’m the author). [0] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by pselbert · 2020-09-12 · in Changelog for Elixir v1.11

…with Oban, which is a distributed workflow manager and scheduler written in a different language: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by dnautics · 2020-08-01 · in Show HN: Odin – The Observable and Distributed Workflow System

For a very nice library in the Elixir/Phoenix ecosystem have a look at https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by cpursley · 2020-07-23 · in GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails

…I work on processes ~500k-1m jobs a day and the queue overhead is virtually invisible. [0] https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by pselbert · 2020-07-23 · in GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails

…it was such a refreshing change. That led me to develop a Postgres based job professor in Elixir: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban All the goodies only possible by gluing Redis structures together through lua scripts were much more…

comment by pselbert · 2020-01-02 · in RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python

…back-end and state management. It's incredibly well written and I am using it in a project. [0]: https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

comment by nickjj · 2019-12-20 · in When an SQL Database Makes a Great Pub/Sub