apalis-dev/apalis

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1363 stars · 91 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Apalis is a type-safe, extensible background processing library for Rust for building durable, distributed job and task processing systems. It supports multiple backends (Postgres, Redis, SQLite), Tower-based middleware, cron scheduling, sequential and DAG workflows, and a web UI for monitoring.

Use cases

• run background jobs in a rust web app
• schedule cron tasks in rust
• process email sending queues asynchronously
• build distributed task workers backed by postgres or redis
• orchestrate multi-step DAG workflows
• monitor and retry failed background tasks

When to choose

• you need type-safe, macro-free background job processing in Rust
• you want durable queues on Postgres, Redis, or SQLite
• you need retries, rate limiting, and graceful shutdown out of the box
• you want Tower middleware compatibility and observability via tracing

When to avoid

• you need a language-agnostic message broker consumed by non-Rust services
• you need enterprise features like encryption at rest or batch processing without a paid plan
• you want a zero-dependency in-process job runner without a database backend

Facets

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message-queue scheduling workflow-automation middleware monitoring backend developer-tools microservices rust windows self-hosted background-jobs job-queue task-processing postgres redis sqlite cron tower worker dag-workflows web-ui automation linux macos docker

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