Shopify/job-iteration

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1313 stars · 60 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A Ruby gem extending ActiveJob that makes long-running background jobs interruptible and resumable via cursor-based checkpointing. Developed at Shopify, it lets jobs safely survive deploys, worker restarts, and infrastructure disruptions without losing progress.

Use cases

• resume background jobs after deploys or restarts
• process millions of ActiveRecord records in a job without losing progress
• make long-running ActiveJob jobs interruptible and resumable
• safely handle worker restarts and pod evictions during batch processing
• checkpoint job progress when iterating over database relations
• backfill or migrate large datasets in background jobs

When to choose

• you run long-running background jobs on Rails/ActiveJob that risk being interrupted by deploys or infrastructure restarts
• you need resumable iteration over large ActiveRecord relations or batches
• you operate in cloud environments where workers can be evicted at any time

When to avoid

• your jobs are short-lived and rarely interrupted
• you don't use Rails ActiveJob or a Ruby backend
• you need a general-purpose job scheduler or queue rather than an iteration extension

Facets

library · maturity stable

concurrency workflow-automation developer-tools backend web-development microservices ruby cloud activejob background-jobs resumable-jobs checkpointing rails long-running-jobs job-processing automation web-server

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