samples-typescript VS pg-boss

Using Temporal is in the category of building it yourselves, not a billing service. But it makes it take much less time to build, because it makes the changes, scaling, and grandfathering quick to do. Especially with the new Scheduled workflows feature: https://github.com/temporalio/samples-typescript/tree/main/s...

The humanVerificationWorkflow workflow used above is in temporalio/samples-typescript. For a more in-depth demo, see this video.

TypeScript: Money Transfer Saga

Temporal is a great way to schedule things. Can do sleep('6 months') in a durable function ("workflow"), or can do Scheduled workflows like this.

packages/workflows/order.ts

The sample code is here: https://github.com/temporalio/samples-typescript/tree/main/food-delivery

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.