facebookarchive/bistro
Bistro is a flexible distributed scheduler, a high-performance framework supporting multiple paradigms while retaining ease of configuration, management, and monitoring. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4600
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1261
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1026 stars · 137 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Bistro is a C++ distributed task scheduler framework from Facebook that schedules and runs distributed tasks, including data-parallel jobs, with resource constraints for worker hosts and data-access bottlenecks. It supports multiple scheduling paradigms (batch, periodic, sharded, MapReduce-style) and ships with command-line tooling, a web UI, and a REST scheduler API.
Use cases
- schedule distributed batch compute jobs with CPU/GPU resource constraints
- run map-only ETL tasks safely against live production databases
- replace cron for periodic data processing tasks
- build a resource-aware job queue for batch workloads
- run data compression or maintenance tasks on HBase or MySQL hosts without impacting live traffic
- model MapReduce-style map/shuffle/reduce pipelines as dependent jobs
When to choose
- you need a flexible, resource-aware scheduler for distributed tasks across many worker hosts
- you must enforce resource constraints tied to data hosts or physical bottlenecks like disk IOPs
- you want one framework to handle batch, periodic, and sharded scheduling paradigms
- you need a scheduler with a REST API, web UI, and scriptable JSON configuration
When to avoid
- you want an actively maintained project - the repository has been archived by Facebook
- you need a simple cron replacement or lightweight workflow orchestrator with a large community
- you require Windows or macOS production support - it targets 64-bit Linux with heavy Folly/FBThrift dependencies
- you prefer mainstream schedulers with broad ecosystem support like Airflow, Kubernetes jobs, or Hadoop
Facets
framework · maturity abandoned
scheduling workflow-automation etl microservices cli microservices big-data developer-tools cpp cli distributed-scheduler task-execution batch-jobs resource-aware-scheduling facebook archived data-engineering automation linux docker web-server
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/facebookarchive/bistro · fetched 2026-08-28 · fdbabfce204f
- homepage: https://bistro.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6b09bbe45b39
- site_page: https://bistro.io/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9242819541cd
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| facebookarchive/bistro | main | 10 |
For agents
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