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Database backed asynchronous priority queue -- Extracted from Shopify

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2009-11-03 · latest 2026-01-14

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  1. …years. The solid queue of yesteryear was delayed_job which was originally created by Shopify's CEO. https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job Shopify however grew (as many others) and we saw a host of blog posts and talks about moving away from…
    comment by gregors · 2026-01-14 · in I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
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    story by tosh · 2024-09-07 · 1 comment
  3. DJ could use a update to be fully Rails 4.2 compatible. I'd love a PR for that and would merge. https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job
    comment by xal · 2014-12-20 · in Rails 4.2 released
  4. …in a job que and do the processing later. Some tools for the job: https://github.com/defunkt/resque https://github.com/tobi/delayed_job Also don't forget to cache. You shouldn't worry too much if you do these two properly.
  5. Looks like you need something like Delayed Job: http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job Not sure of an equivalent in PHP.
  6. FWIW, xal (who you replied to) == the author of DJ. http://github.com/tobi/delayed_job
    comment by mattyb · 2009-11-03 · in Introducing Resque