# vmihailenco/taskq

Golang asynchronous task/job queue with Redis, SQS, IronMQ, and in-memory backends

Repository: https://github.com/vmihailenco/taskq
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/taskq
Homepage: https://taskq.uptrace.dev/
Language: Go
License: BSD-2-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: go, golang, queue, message-queue, ironmq, sqs, redis, task-queue, taskqueue, ironmq-backend
Last push: 2025-04-28T03:05:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 31/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 18, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3497, "days_push": 492, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1341, forks 106 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:26.155612+00:00)

## What it is
A Go library for asynchronous task/job queues with pluggable backends including Redis, AWS SQS, IronMQ, and in-memory. It turns Go functions into background tasks with automatic retries, rate limiting, deduplication, and scaling workers.

## Use cases
- run background jobs in go
- async task queue with redis backend
- process sqs messages from golang
- schedule deferred tasks in go
- deduplicate and retry failed jobs
- rate limit background workers

## When to choose
- you need a Go-native task queue with multiple broker backends
- you want built-in retries, rate limiting, and message deduplication
- you already use go-redis or AWS SQS and want a consistent task API

## When to avoid
- you need a language-agnostic job server with a web UI like Celery or Sidekiq
- you only need simple goroutine pools without persistence
- your stack is not Go

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: message-queue, scheduling, rate-limiting, concurrency
- domain: backend, microservices, developer-tools
- platform: go, windows, cloud
- tags: task-queue, background-jobs, redis, aws-sqs, ironmq, async-tasks, retries, worker-pool, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- vmihailenco/taskq (main) score 31

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:26.155612+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 2026-08-30T04:43:46.544555+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vmihailenco/taskq (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:26.155612+00:00, sha 2348f3cb0e54)
  - homepage: https://taskq.uptrace.dev/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:02:41.182059+00:00, sha d35312a5b8ed)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.