jrallison/go-workers

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1379 stars · 165 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A Go library for running Sidekiq-compatible background job workers backed by Redis. It provides reliable queueing via BRPOPLPUSH, retries, custom middleware, per-queue concurrency, and a stats HTTP endpoint.

Use cases

• process background jobs in a Go service
• share a Redis job queue between Ruby Sidekiq and Go apps
• enqueue async tasks with retries
• run workers with per-queue concurrency control
• monitor running jobs via a stats endpoint

When to choose

• you need Go workers interoperable with Sidekiq's Redis queue format
• you want reliable at-least-once processing with retries in Go
• you need lightweight background job processing without a separate broker beyond Redis

When to avoid

• you need a pure-Go queue ecosystem with modern features like scheduled jobs UI or native Go tooling (consider gocraft/work, asynq, or river)
• you don't use Redis
• you need a maintained project with active development

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

message-queue concurrency middleware scheduling backend developer-tools microservices go windows sidekiq-compatible background-jobs redis job-queue workers linux macos docker

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