Top 8 background-worker Open-Source Projects

Resque

5 9,388 4.1 Ruby

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.
Hangfire

61 9,013 9.4 C#

An easy way to perform background job processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required

Project mention: Deno Cron | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-29

Unpopular opinion incoming... What I see is yet another way that the backend JS world is finally achieving something .NET had years ago[0].
Node/Deno/Bun/etc. + npm sounds super straightforward at first glance (and it is at first). But I've thought for years that it's far easier to be productive as an organization on .NET in Visual Studio, since it's simpler to design, deliver, and maintain infrastructure.
[0] https://www.hangfire.io/

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Coravel

5 3,565 6.0 C#

Near-zero config .NET library that makes advanced application features like Task Scheduling, Caching, Queuing, Event Broadcasting, and more a breeze!
pg_partman

7 1,873 7.3 PLpgSQL

Partition management extension for PostgreSQL

Project mention: Dear data engineers | /r/dataengineering | 2023-12-06

Assuming these are the types of insights you're looking for, you'll probably look for a way to aggregate data points across/within geographies. postgis is an open source extension for postgres that can help you with this, but there's also quite a few python tools that can help you explore the data, such as geopandas, folium, geoplot. Depending on volume, you might want to partition the data for query performance, and there's another extension pg_partman that can help with that. Just noticed some other posts have recommended something similar.

CronScheduler.AspNetCore

1 167 0.0 C#

Cron Scheduler for AspNetCore 2.x/7.x or DotNetCore 2.x/7.x Self-hosted
bg_mon

1 66 5.2 C

Background worker for monitoring PostgreSQL
sidekiq

192 7 0.0 Ruby

Sidekiq worker on Render (by render-examples)
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

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.
Enqueue It

0 1 3.7 C#

Easy and scalable solution for manage and execute background tasks seamlessly in .NET applications. It allows you to schedule, queue, and process your jobs and microservices efficiently.

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).