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nsqio/nsq

A realtime distributed messaging platform

Stack

Go Tornado Go modules npm pip

GitHub topics

#distributed-systems #go #message-queue #messaging #nsq #queue

Updated: 2025-07-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-05-12
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 79 open

25,755

stars

Forks: 2,890
Commits: 2,308 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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resque/resque

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

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#asynchronous-tasks #asynctask #background-jobs #background-service #background-worker #job-management

Updated: 2026-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-12
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 95 open

9,480

stars

Forks: 1,658
Commits: 1,825 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hatchet-dev/hatchet

🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows

AI dev

Stack

Go Bundler Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#concurrency #dag #distributed #distributed-systems #durable-execution #event-driven

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-12-15
History: 24 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 131 open

7,514

stars

Forks: 451
Commits: 3,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +26 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +36 +1.1%

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mahmoud/boltons

🔩 Like builtins, but boltons. 250+ constructs, recipes, and snippets which extend (and rely on nothing but) the Python standard library. Nothing like Michael Bolton.

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#cache #data-science #data-structures #file #json #python

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-20
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 80 open

6,905

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Forks: 402
Commits: 1,622 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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coleifer/huey

a little task queue for python

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#dank #django #python #queue #redis #task-queue

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-03
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

5,981

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Forks: 396
Commits: 1,152 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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svix/svix-webhooks

The open source and enterprise-ready webhooks service 🦀

Stack

Rust Axum Express pytest Bundler Cargo Composer

GitHub topics

#api #background-jobs #background-tasks #event-driven #hacktoberfest #kafka

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-02-14
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 63 open

3,282

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Forks: 259
Commits: 3,651 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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resque/resque-scheduler

A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque

Stack

Ruby Sinatra Bundler

GitHub topics

#background-jobs #queue #scheduler

Updated: 2026-02-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-21
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 87 open

1,746

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Forks: 476
Commits: 1,151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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closeio/tasktiger

Python task queue using Redis

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#queue #worker

Updated: 2026-06-11
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2015-05-12
History: 46 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

1,468

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 370 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mauriciosantos/Buckets-JS

A complete, fully tested and documented data structure library written in pure JavaScript.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#bag #binary-heap #binary-search #binary-search-tree #collection #collections

Updated: 2020-12-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-12-30
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

1,258

stars

Forks: 113
Commits: 124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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django-background-tasks/django-background-tasks

A database-backed work queue for Django

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#background-jobs #background-sync #background-thread #django #python #queue

Updated: 2025-06-19
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2010-02-15
History: 22 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 99 open

623

stars

Forks: 151
Commits: 421 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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wakatime/wakaq

Background task queue for Python backed by Redis, a super minimal Celery

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#async #asynchronous-tasks #background-jobs #celery #distributed #job-queue

Updated: 2026-05-21
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2022-08-27
History: 22 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 0 open

596

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 390 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Bogdanp/django_dramatiq

A Django app that integrates with Dramatiq.

Stack

Python Django pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#django #python #queue

Updated: 2026-05-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-31
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 19 open

384

stars

Forks: 86
Commits: 267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Salaah01/django-action-triggers

A Django library for asynchronously triggering actions in response to database changes. It supports integration with webhooks, message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and can trigger other processes, including AWS Lambda functions.

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip Poetry

GitHub topics

#asyncio #automation #database-events #django #django-application #django-rest-framework

Updated: 2026-02-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2024-08-10
History: 25 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 93 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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