# jrallison/go-workers

Sidekiq compatible background workers in golang

Repository: https://github.com/jrallison/go-workers
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/go-workers
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-04-01T13:48:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4798, "days_push": 884, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1379, forks 165 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:33.773012+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: message-queue, concurrency, middleware, scheduling
- domain: backend, developer-tools, microservices
- platform: go, windows
- tags: sidekiq-compatible, background-jobs, redis, job-queue, workers, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- jrallison/go-workers (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:33.773012+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:40:19.295734+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jrallison/go-workers (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:33.773012+00:00, sha 217ea1e757d0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.