worker vs Asynq

worker

A beanstalkd worker package (by eramus)

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Asynq

Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go (by hibiken)

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worker		Asynq
	Project
1	Mentions	32
23	Stars	8,671
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	7.0
about 8 years ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Go	Language	Go
-	License	MIT License

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worker

Posts with mentions or reviews of worker. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-06.

Golang task queue
10 projects | /r/golang | 6 Sep 2022

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.

Looking for a language agnostic Go task queue with Redis
1 project | /r/golang | 12 Sep 2023

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)
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?
2 projects | /r/golang | 6 Jul 2023

Asynq does this pretty nicely https://github.com/hibiken/asynq/wiki/Periodic-Tasks
Examples of using task scheduler with Go?
8 projects | /r/golang | 3 Jun 2023

Asynq looks promising. Never used it myself. https://github.com/hibiken/asynq
Recommendation for a selfhosted worker/task queue runner?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 16 May 2023

Never used it, but it appears to fit most of the criteria. https://github.com/hibiken/asynq
How to run periodic tasks?
3 projects | /r/golang | 7 Apr 2023
What would you rewrite in Golang?
10 projects | /r/golang | 3 Apr 2023

https://github.com/hibiken/asynq is pretty close
Suggestions for CRON jobs queue tool
2 projects | /r/golang | 12 Mar 2023

I tried it 2 months ago and it was not suitable for dynamic CRON job enqueue scheduling
I’m looking for a suggestion for a queuing library
4 projects | /r/golang | 15 Jan 2023

My current best option is AsynQ (https://github.com/hibiken/asynq but it uses redid and not Postgres for the db
What is the best task queue?
6 projects | /r/golang | 15 Jan 2023

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
Distributed queue(redis) go
1 project | /r/golang | 12 Jan 2023

Asynq might do what you need https://github.com/hibiken/asynq

What are some alternatives?

When comparing worker and Asynq you can also consider the following projects:

asyncjobs - Asynchronous Job Processor

machinery - Machinery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.

work - Process background jobs in Go

Faktory - Language-agnostic persistent background job server

NATS - Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system.

temporal - Temporal service

nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform

gocelery - Celery Distributed Task Queue in Go

go-nsq - The official Go package for NSQ

pingme - PingMe is a CLI which provides the ability to send messages or alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email.

cadence - Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.

Confluent Kafka Golang Client - Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client