walex VS pg-boss

The WAL CDC approach: https://github.com/cpursley/walex?tab=readme-ov-file#publica...

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What do you mean testing with processes?

I won't suggest these are the best written tests, but I test various processes, supervisors, etc like this:

https://github.com/cpursley/walex/blob/master/test/walex/sup...

You don’t send the entire WAL, just what you subscribe to - and you can even filter via SQL: https://github.com/cpursley/walex?tab=readme-ov-file#publica...

What we do is much if the business logic in Postgres. But then there’s all the other stuff like external integrations, etc.

We handled that by having an Even system built on the Postgres WAL that we use like a callback system.

I put together a little library in Elixir (that originally started out as forked Supabase realtime) for this:

https://github.com/cpursley/walex

Recently added the ability to configure WalEx to forward events to webhooks or EventRelay (so you don’t need to know Elixir).

If you're using Elixir, check out https://github.com/cpursley/walex

I've actually been thinking about turning this idea into a product where you can just point it at your postgres database and select the tables you want to listen to (with filters, like you describe). And have that forwarded to a webhook (with possibility of other protocols).

I'd love to hear folks thoughts on that (and if it would be something people would pay for).

Neat, this is the pattern I've been thinking about for a while now. Also glad to see this is Elixir based.

I've been using https://github.com/cpursley/walex (basically a fork of cainophile via a fork for subabase) to listen to Postgres changes in Elixir.

https://github.com/cpursley/walex

Which is based on WAL logs and doesnt have the same limitations.

Great writeup, just added this to the WalEx readme:

https://github.com/cpursley/walex

(WalEx is an Elixir lib for listening to the WAL and perform callback-like actions with the data)

Very cool.

I'm using Elixir to listen to change events via https://github.com/cpursley/walex (which I basically ripped off from Supabase).

These tasks are managed by pg-boss behind the scenes (which is based on PostgreSQL) and, oh look, that seamlessly connects to...

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.