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| Sidekiq | Faktory | |
|---|---|---|
| 91 | 23 | |
| 12,940 | 5,494 | |
| 0.5% | 1.2% | |
| 8.9 | 7.7 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Ruby | Go | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Sidekiq
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solid_queue alternatives - Sidekiq and good_job
3 projects | 21 Apr 2024
I'd say Sidekiq is the top competitor here.
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Valkey Is Rapidly Overtaking Redis
There's something wrong at Redislabs, it took them over a year to get RESP3 rolled out into their hosted service, you'd expect a rollout of that to be a bit quicker when they're the owner of Redis.
It affected us when upgrading Sidekiq to version 7, which dropped support for older Redis, and their Envoy proxy setup didn't support HELLO and RESP3: https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/issues/5594
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Redis Re-Implemented with SQLite
That depends on how the `maxmemory-policy` is configured, and queue systems based on Redis will tell you not to allow eviction. https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/wiki/Using-Redis#memory (it even logs a warnings if it detects your Redis is misconfigured IIRC).
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3 one-person million dollar online businesses
Sidekiq https://sidekiq.org/: This one started as an open source project, once it got enough traction, the developer made a premium version of it, and makes money by selling licenses to businesses.
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Choose Postgres Queue Technology
Sidekiq will drop in-progress jobs when a worker crashes. Sidekiq Pro can recover those jobs but with a large delay. Sidekiq is excellent overall but it’s not suitable for processing critical jobs with a low latency guarantee.
https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/wiki/Reliability
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We built the fastest CI in the world. It failed
> I'm not sure feature withholding has traditionally worked out well in the developer space.
I think it's worked out well for Sidekiq (https://sidekiq.org). I really like their model of layering valuable features between the OSS / Pro / Enterprise licenses.
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Exploring concurrent rate limiters, mutexes, semaphores
I was studying Sidekiq's page on rate limiters. The first type of rate limiting mentioned is the concurrent limiter: only n tasks are allowed to run at any point in time. Note that this is independent of time units (e.g. per second), or how long they take to run. The only limitation is the number of concurrent tasks/requests.
- Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
- Sidekiq and managing resumable jobs?
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Organize Business Logic in Your Ruby on Rails Application
The code above isn't idempotent. If you run it twice, it will create two copies, which is probably not what you intended. Why is this important? Because most backend job processors like Sidekiq don't make any guarantees that your jobs will run exactly once.
Faktory
- Faktory: Language-agnostic persistent background job server
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Ruby 3.3
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
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Software Disenchantment
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.
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Building a PHP client for Faktory, Part 1
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.
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What is the best task queue?
At work we use https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
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New Gem for background job processing from Ruby/Rails -> Crystal
Have you heard of faktory before? Made by the sidekiq guy and allows you to d a similar thing.
- Are there any actively maintained or official Golang libraries for managing work queues?
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Celery + RabbitMQ alternatives
I’ve started using Faktory with the Faktory Worker Python it also supports workers in any language.
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Golang task queue
Try https://github.com/contribsys/faktory which is written in go but you interact with it as a service.
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What are some popular background job processing frameworks in the Rust ecosystem?
There is faktory, from the author of Sidekiq, which is language-agnostic (the server is written in Go).
What are some alternatives?
Resque - Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.
gocron - Easy and fluent Go cron scheduling. This is a fork from https://github.com/jasonlvhit/gocron
Sneakers - A fast background processing framework for Ruby and RabbitMQ
temporal - Temporal service
Shoryuken - A super efficient Amazon SQS thread based message processor for Ruby
go-quartz - Minimalist and zero-dependency scheduling library for Go
Sucker Punch - Sucker Punch is a Ruby asynchronous processing library using concurrent-ruby, heavily influenced by Sidekiq and girl_friday.
Asynq - Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go
Apache Kafka - Mirror of Apache Kafka
leprechaun - You had one job, or more then one, which can be done in steps
celery - Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
sched - A job scheduler for Go with the ability to fast-forward time.