Asynq
Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go (by hibiken)
NATS
Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system. (by nats-io)
| Asynq | NATS | |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | 11 | |
| 8,648 | 5,161 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 7.0 | 9.1 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Asynq
Posts with mentions or reviews of Asynq.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.
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Looking for a language agnostic Go task queue with Redis
EDIT : I think the best for my case will be to use the asynq library with a custom js client, it's quite easy to implement (Detailed here)
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I have a web app that requires allowing users to schedule a recurring task at their own specified time/interval. How would you go about it?
Asynq does this pretty nicely https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Periodic-Tasks
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Examples of using task scheduler with Go?
Asynq looks promising. Never used it myself. https://github.com/hibiken/asynq
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Recommendation for a selfhosted worker/task queue runner?
Never used it, but it appears to fit most of the criteria. https://github.com/hibiken/asynq
- How to run periodic tasks?
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What would you rewrite in Golang?
https://github.com/hibiken/asynq is pretty close
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Suggestions for CRON jobs queue tool
I tried it 2 months ago and it was not suitable for dynamic CRON job enqueue scheduling
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I’m looking for a suggestion for a queuing library
My current best option is AsynQ (https://github.com/hibiken/asynq but it uses redid and not Postgres for the db
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What is the best task queue?
Hi, I'm starting a new project that involves distributing task on different (and possibly distributed) workers in Golang. So I'm looking for the best task queue library to use; for now the ones I like are the following (in no particular order): - asynq - machinery - taskq
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Distributed queue(redis) go
Asynq might do what you need https://github.com/hibiken/asynq
NATS
Posts with mentions or reviews of NATS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-21.
- High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system
- Asyncapi with Go
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What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
nats: Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system
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Distributed communication patterns with NATS
Install the nats.go package
- Redis vs. Kafka vs. RabbitMQ
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Distributed messaging with NATS
Now that our NATS server is running, we'll be using Go and Node.js clients to connect to it for simple demonstration. Not familiar with Go or Node? Don't worry NATS has clients available in over 40 languages!
- How do I build a text editor like notepad using wails
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Plugins vs Microservices
You can build monolith applications and if they need cross communication, rely on something like Nats: https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go
- Modern Communication: Sockets
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Subscription management in pub/sub system
You could start by looking/reading how it is implemented in production ala https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Asynq and NATS you can also consider the following projects:
machinery - Machinery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform
work - Process background jobs in Go
Centrifugo - Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably. Set up once and forever.
Faktory - Language-agnostic persistent background job server
EventBus - [Go] Lightweight eventbus with async compatibility for Go
temporal - Temporal service
go-nsq - The official Go package for NSQ
dbus - Native Go bindings for D-Bus
gocelery - Celery Distributed Task Queue in Go
emitter - Emits events in Go way, with wildcard, predicates, cancellation possibilities and many other good wins