# iamduo/workq

Job server in Go

Repository: https://github.com/iamduo/workq
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/workq
Language: Go
License: MPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: queue, queueing, jobs, jobqueue, job, job-scheduler, worker, workers, scheduler, schedule
Archived: true
Last push: 2018-09-23T16:56:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3680, "days_push": 2901, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1497, forks 74 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:53.854642+00:00)

## What it is
Workq is a standalone job scheduling and processing server written in Go that communicates over a simple text-based TCP protocol. It supports synchronous and asynchronous job execution, adhoc scheduling at future times, priorities, retries, and per-job TTL/TTR limits with in-memory storage plus a persistent command log.

## Use cases
- schedule one-time jobs at a future time
- run background jobs with multiple workers
- retry failed jobs automatically
- distribute work across workers in any language
- run a job and wait for its result synchronously
- add concurrency to languages without built-in async support

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, language-agnostic job server with a simple text protocol
- you want adhoc one-time scheduling without building polling logic into a datastore
- you need per-job retry, TTL, and timeout controls out of the box

## When to avoid
- you need a mature, actively maintained project - the latest release is from 2018 and it is marked alpha
- you need durable disk-backed queues with strong persistence guarantees
- you need a large ecosystem of client libraries and community support like RabbitMQ or Redis-based queues

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: message-queue, scheduling, workflow-automation, http-server
- domain: microservices, backend, developer-tools
- platform: go, windows, cross-platform, cli
- tags: job-server, job-queue, worker-coordination, tcp-protocol, gearman-style, in-memory, job-scheduling, background-jobs, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- iamduo/workq (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.854642+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 2026-08-30T04:33:09.082235+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/iamduo/workq (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.854642+00:00, sha 8fd8a5cb93e0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.