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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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WorkOS
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.
The Go ecosystem has many brilliant distributed task queue libraries, but sometimes we still have to settle for some bloated cross-platform solution in order to work with components written in other languages. To solve this problem, we created Ratus, which is a service, not a library. It translated concepts of distributed task queues into a set of resources that conform to REST principles and provides an easy-to-use HTTP API. Ratus is implemented in Go, and comes with a Go client library. Asynchronous task queues are typically used for long-running background tasks, so the overhead of the HTTP API is not significant compared to the time spent by the tasks themselves. On the other hand, the HTTP-based RESTful API can be easily accessed by all languages without using dedicated client libraries.