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Top 12 Go background-job Projects
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Project mention: Supercharging Go with Asynq: Scalable Background Jobs Made Easy | dev.to | 2025-02-27
Asynq is a Redis-backed task queue that simplifies async task processing in Go.
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InfluxDB
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Project mention: How to Run CRON Jobs in Postgres Without Extra Infrastructure | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-30
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tork
Tork is a lightweight, distributed workflow engine that runs tasks as simple scripts within Docker containers.
A little while back, I wrote a post introducing Tork, an open-source project I've been developing. In a nutshell, Tork is a general-purpose, distributed workflow engine suitable for various workloads. At my work, we primarily use it for CPU/GPU-heavy tasks such as processing digital assets (3D, videos, images etc.), as well as our CI/CD tool for our internal PaaS.
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Project mention: Neoq – a queue-agnostic background job library for Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-01
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Project mention: Show HN: AI-gent Workflows – locally reasoning AI Agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-26
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ratus
Ratus is a RESTful asynchronous task queue server. It translated concepts of distributed task queues into a set of resources that conform to REST principles and provides a consistent HTTP API for various backends.
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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blockqueue
BlockQueue is a open source and cost-effective Job Queue with a pub/sub mechanism utilizing SQLite and NutsDB. Support LibSQL by Turso and PostgreSQL
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exeq
painless task queue manager for shell commands with an intuitive cli interface (execute shell commands in distributed cloud-native queue manager).
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Project mention: Show HN: KanthorQ – Messaging System Backed by PostgreSQL | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-05
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go-smartpoll
Package smartpoll offers dynamic, reactive scheduling for synchronized polling of multiple data points.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Go background-jobs discussion
Go background-jobs related posts
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River Queue
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Supercharging Go with Asynq: Scalable Background Jobs Made Easy
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Fast and reliable background jobs in Go
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River: Robust high-performance job processing system for Go and Postgres
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Show HN: A distributed workflow engine written in Go
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I built a distributed workflow engine
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Looking for a language agnostic Go task queue with Redis
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Index
What are some of the best open-source background-job projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asynq | 11,551 |
| 2 | river | 4,220 |
| 3 | tork | 708 |
| 4 | Tasqueue | 424 |
| 5 | neoq | 319 |
| 6 | asyncmachine-go | 146 |
| 7 | ratus | 120 |
| 8 | nq | 93 |
| 9 | blockqueue | 67 |
| 10 | exeq | 14 |
| 11 | kanthorq | 11 |
| 12 | go-smartpoll | 2 |
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