worker VS walex

Big fan of Graphile Worker to handle this job. https://github.com/graphile/worker

I do enjoy using https://github.com/graphile/worker for my postgresql queuing needs. Very scalable, the next release 0.14 even more so, and easy to use.

On the same subject (job queue based on PostgreSQL), I'm successfully using the https://github.com/graphile/worker/ (NodeJS) project in production.

Jobs are written in Javascript.

Postgres is used both as a store of state for Runs/Tasks and for the Job queue (we use Graphile Worker).

Having now built V5's unified plugins and presets system, I'm extremely pleased with it! I'm so happy, in fact, that I'm looking forward to integrating it with Graphile's other tools such as Graphile Worker (our Postgres-backed job queue) and Graphile Migrate (a lightweight SQL-based migration framework that focuses on DX) once V5 is out and stable.

Another good library for this is Graphile Worker:

https://github.com/graphile/worker

Uses both listen notify and advisory locks so it is using all the right features. And you can enqueue a job from sql and plpgsql triggers. Nice!

Worker is in Node js.

https://github.com/graphile/worker

See also graphile-worker: https://github.com/graphile/worker (lower latency than pg-boss because it uses LISTEN/NOTIFY)

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

CREATE PUBLICATION news_item FOR TABLE news WHERE (topic IS "AAPL");

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).