Top 8 Go background-job Projects

Asynq

32 8,615 7.0 Go

Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go

Project mention: Looking for a language agnostic Go task queue with Redis | /r/golang | 2023-09-12

EDIT : I think the best for my case will be to use the asynq library with a custom js client, it's quite easy to implement (Detailed here)

river

3 1,945 9.4 Go

Fast and reliable background jobs in Go (by riverqueue)

Project mention: Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-08

How does this compare to River Queue (https://riverqueue.com/)? Besides the additional Python and TS client libraries.

InfluxDB

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tork

4 463 9.7 Go

A distributed workflow engine

Project mention: Show HN: A distributed workflow engine written in Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-01

neoq

5 243 8.3 Go

Queue-agnostic background job library for Go, with a pleasant API and powerful features.

Project mention: Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-08

ratus

12 101 8.3 Go

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.
nq

3 91 10.0 Go

Cancellable, Efficient and Reliable Distributed Task Queue in Go (by DumbMachine)
exeq

2 13 0.0 Go

painless task queue manager for shell commands with an intuitive cli interface (execute shell commands in distributed cloud-native queue manager).
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
go-smartpoll

1 2 6.2 Go

Package smartpoll offers dynamic, reactive scheduling for synchronized polling of multiple data points.

Project mention: Show HN: Smartpoll – A Dynamic, Reactive Scheduling Package for Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-21

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).