BeanstalkD VS pg-boss

There's beanstalkd, it has a few Python libraries and it works out of the box with ActiveJob via Backburner.

https://beanstalkd.github.io/

Messaging/Queueing Systems (Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, Beanstalkd)

Not when a queue is involved. IME trying to replicate something like beanstalkd (https://beanstalkd.github.io/) in postgres is asking for trouble for anything but trivial workloads.

If you're measuring throughput in jobs/s, use a real work queue.

Before Kafka was a standard, I created a go library for beanstalkd that act like an RPC.

Then there are queue libraries like beanstalkd, RabbitMQ or built-in features like queues from Laravel. These will probably get you quicker to your goal then trying the process managing route.

The only task queue I loved was beanstalkd -- it's beautifully written and highly performant. Starting it takes seconds and it's been running for a decade:

https://beanstalkd.github.io/

It's not rust (it's C), but beanstalkd is a pretty incredible work queue that processes millions of jobs a day (10K+/s at peak) for my company. I know there are a few rust drivers available.

For running queues on Postgres with Node.js backend(s), I highly recommend https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss. I'm sure it has it scale limits. But if you're one of the 90% of the apps that never needs any kind of scale that a modern server can't easily handle then it's fantastic. You get transactional queueing of jobs, and it automatically handles syncing across multiple job processing servers using Postgres locks.

Jobs use pg-boss, a postgres extension, to queue and run tasks under the hood.

If you don't want to roll your own, look into https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss

I saw this https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss but it's more for jobs than for message with multiple consumers (having their own progress offset).

The best I've used till now. Has all kind of features and really great when you have a postgres dB in your stack. https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss

Check out these; - https://github.com/mitranim/posterus - https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss - https://github.com/FirebaseExtended/firebase-queue - https://www.npmjs.com/package/rabbit-queue

You can use the simplest option than implement a new service. Keep in mind that every running system can be a job scheduler, you can just use nodejs worker threads, Redis, or even your DB as a job scheduler, check PGBoss for example.

Both! For context, we're currently using https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss as a task queue on top of postgres and it works great. No need to complicate things with Redis. I believe it's quite straightforward to implement a task queue on top of postgres using the SKIP LOCKED functionality.