ratus VS Faktory

The Go ecosystem has many brilliant distributed task queue libraries, but sometimes we still have to settle for some bloated cross-platform solution in order to work with components written in other languages. To solve this problem, we created Ratus, which is a service, not a library. It translated concepts of distributed task queues into a set of resources that conform to REST principles and provides an easy-to-use HTTP API. Ratus is implemented in Go, and comes with a Go client library. Asynchronous task queues are typically used for long-running background tasks, so the overhead of the HTTP API is not significant compared to the time spent by the tasks themselves. On the other hand, the HTTP-based RESTful API can be easily accessed by all languages without using dedicated client libraries.

To solve this problem, we created Ratus, which is a service, not a library. It translated concepts of distributed task queues into a set of resources that conform to REST principles and provides an easy-to-use HTTP API. Ratus is implemented in Go, and comes with a Go client library. The current default storage engine is MongoDB (in-memory store coming soon), we will also try to integrate existing Go task queue libraries.

I've been working on https://github.com/hyperonym/ratus which is a RESTful asynchronous task queue server, it also comes with a Go client library.

Mike Perham (the sidekiq maintainer) also maintains the less well known faktory[0] which is language agnostic and has runners for both Ruby and Python

[0] https://github.com/contribsys/faktory

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance's entire thesis is "What is Quality?" How do you define it? How does it come about?

You can still get software quality but you have to be willing to devote time and effort to it. The binary for my modern, commercial background job engine written in Go, Faktory, is 5MB in size.

https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/releases/tag/v1.8.0

I know when I see an iOS app that is 5-10MB in size, I know it was crafted by someone who cares.

My recent queue foray put me on the scent of Faktory, a language-agnostic queue server made by Sidekiq's author. I noticed there wasn't a good PHP client (the one linked in the docs is pretty old), so I decided to build one.

At work we use https://github.com/contribsys/faktory

Have you heard of faktory before? Made by the sidekiq guy and allows you to d a similar thing.

I’ve started using Faktory with the Faktory Worker Python it also supports workers in any language.

Try https://github.com/contribsys/faktory which is written in go but you interact with it as a service.

There is faktory, from the author of Sidekiq, which is language-agnostic (the server is written in Go).