Are there any actively maintained or official Golang libraries for managing work queues?

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  1. Asynq

    Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go

    + asynq

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  3. taskq

    Golang asynchronous task/job queue with Redis, SQS, IronMQ, and in-memory backends

    + taskq

  4. NATS

    High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

    NATS JetStream

  5. Tasqueue

    A background jobs library for Go that allows pluggable brokers/store for distribution.

    asynq is pretty good. Used in prod at a lot of places. yes, the releases do lag. And some minor bugs, but other than that it could work for most use cases. There is also https://github.com/kalbhor/Tasqueue, the API is still very young, but its features are very promising.

  6. machinery

    Machinery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.

    I've had this project starred for a while but haven't used it: https://github.com/RichardKnop/machinery

  7. xsync

    Concurrent data structures for Go

  8. Faktory

    Language-agnostic persistent background job server

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  10. goque

    Persistent stacks and queues for Go backed by LevelDB

    i just started using this, it's nice https://github.com/beeker1121/goque

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