delayed
a multi-threaded, SQL-driven ActiveJob backend used at Betterment to process millions of background jobs per day (by Betterment)
inst-jobs
Instructure-maintained fork of delayed_job (by instructure)
| delayed | inst-jobs | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 148 | 25 | |
| 1.4% | - | |
| 4.9 | 6.3 | |
| 3 days ago | 10 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
delayed
Posts with mentions or reviews of delayed.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-06.
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Introducing GoodJob Bulk and Batch
To be fair, I think GoodJob is the third youngest Active Job backend (released in 2020). The younger ones are Skiplock and betterment/delayed.
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Delayed Job vs. Sidekiq: Which Is Better?
One big difference if you're changing forks is to take note of "at least once delivery": https://github.com/betterment/delayed#at-least-once-delivery
If you're not aware of that, simply switching repos may cause some surprises.
inst-jobs
Posts with mentions or reviews of inst-jobs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-16.
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Delayed Job vs. Sidekiq: Which Is Better?
Another fork is [0] which adds debouncing, serialization, recurring jobs, and other useful things.
(Disclaimer: I used to work at Instructure.)
[0] https://github.com/instructure/inst-jobs
What are some alternatives?
When comparing delayed and inst-jobs you can also consider the following projects:
sidekiq-failures - Keep track of Sidekiq failed jobs
heroku-buildpack-jemalloc - Heroku buildpack that installs the Jemalloc memory allocator
good_job - Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.
Delayed::Job - Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify
sidekiq-statistic - See statistic about your workers
RocketJob - Ruby's missing background and batch processing system
sidekiq-unique-jobs - Prevents duplicate Sidekiq jobs
delayed vs sidekiq-failures
inst-jobs vs heroku-buildpack-jemalloc
delayed vs good_job
inst-jobs vs Delayed::Job
delayed vs sidekiq-statistic
inst-jobs vs sidekiq-failures
delayed vs Delayed::Job
inst-jobs vs RocketJob
delayed vs RocketJob
inst-jobs vs sidekiq-unique-jobs
inst-jobs vs good_job
inst-jobs vs sidekiq-statistic