# gocraft/work

Process background jobs in Go

Repository: https://github.com/gocraft/work
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/work
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-06-14T03:44:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4192, "days_push": 810, "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 2526, forks 352 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:58.557594+00:00)

## What it is
gocraft/work is a Go library for enqueuing and processing durable background jobs backed by Redis, similar to Sidekiq. It supports retries, scheduled and periodic jobs, unique jobs, middleware, concurrency control, and a web UI for monitoring failed jobs.

## Use cases
- process background jobs in go
- send emails asynchronously from a go app
- retry failed jobs with redis-backed queue
- run cron-like scheduled jobs in go
- enqueue unique jobs to avoid duplicates
- monitor and manage failed background jobs with a web ui

## When to choose
- you need durable, Redis-backed background job processing in Go
- you want Sidekiq-style semantics like retries, scheduling, and unique jobs
- you need job middleware for metrics and logging
- you want a web UI to inspect failed jobs

## When to avoid
- you don't want a Redis dependency
- you need a distributed task queue without Redis, like Celery with other brokers
- you need a library under very active development with frequent updates

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: message-queue, scheduling, middleware, workflow-automation
- domain: backend, developer-tools, microservices
- platform: go, windows
- tags: background-jobs, redis, sidekiq-like, job-queue, worker-pool, cron-scheduling, web-ui, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- gocraft/work (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:58.557594+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 2026-08-30T02:25:28.839013+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gocraft/work (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:58.557594+00:00, sha 7c142cd89bb3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.