timgit/pg-boss

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

pg-boss is a Node.js job queue built on top of PostgreSQL, using SKIP LOCKED to provide exactly-once delivery and reliable background processing without extra infrastructure. It includes workflow orchestration, cron scheduling, queue policies, plus companion packages for a web dashboard, an HTTP proxy, and a schema-migration CLI.

Use cases

• run background jobs from a Node.js app using an existing Postgres database
• enqueue jobs inside a database transaction with Drizzle, Knex, Kysely or Prisma
• schedule recurring cron jobs and deferred tasks
• orchestrate multi-step job dependency workflows
• replace RabbitMQ or Redis queues to reduce systems to operate
• retry failed jobs with exponential backoff and dead-letter queues
• monitor and manage queues through a web dashboard
• call the queue from non-Node runtimes via an HTTP proxy

When to choose

• your stack already runs on PostgreSQL and you want queueing without extra infrastructure
• you need exactly-once delivery with atomic transactional enqueueing
• you want ORM adapters, cron scheduling, workflows, and rate limiting in one library
• you run serverless or multi-master deployments and need a stateless-friendly queue

When to avoid

• you need very high throughput beyond what a single Postgres instance can handle
• your team has no Postgres operational experience or the database is not already part of your stack
• you need advanced message-queue features like multi-protocol consumers or long-lived streaming

Facets

library · maturity stable

message-queue scheduling workflow-automation rate-limiting cli monitoring databases backend developer-tools self-hosted serverless job-queue postgresql background-jobs exactly-once-delivery cron-scheduling orm-adapters dead-letter-queue pub-sub pglite dashboard http-proxy automation messaging nodejs postgres docker kubernetes

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