benmanns/goworker

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goworker is a Go library for running Resque-compatible background job workers, consuming jobs from Redis queues pushed by Ruby/Rails Resque clients. It leverages Go's cheap concurrency to process jobs far faster and with less memory than Ruby-based workers like Resque or Sidekiq.

Use cases

• process resque jobs from a rails app using go
• run background job workers faster than sidekiq
• consume redis-backed job queues in go
• run 100,000 concurrent background workers on one machine
• offload resource-intensive jobs from ruby to go
• replace resque workers to reduce memory usage

When to choose

• you already enqueue jobs with Resque in a Ruby/Rails app and want a faster, lower-memory worker
• you need very high concurrency for high-latency or compute-heavy jobs
• you want to keep Ruby producers but process jobs in Go

When to avoid

• you want a pure-Go job system without Redis or Resque compatibility
• you need job scheduling, retries, or advanced queue features beyond Resque's model
• your whole stack is Ruby and Sidekiq's ecosystem fits better

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message-queue concurrency serialization backend developer-tools go windows background-jobs resque-compatible redis job-queue worker-pool automation linux macos docker

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