Resque Alternatives

Resque is described as 'Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later' and is an app. There are five alternatives to Resque for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and Ruby apps. The best Resque alternative is Spooled Cloud, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Resque are Celery: Distributed Task Queue, sidekiq, Delayed::Job and Hangfire.

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    Spooled is a high-performance, multi-tenant job queue system designed for reliability, observability, and horizontal scalability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
    • Spooled Cloud is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Resque.

    • Spooled Cloud is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Resque.

    • Spooled Cloud is Free and Open SourceResque is also Free and Open Source
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    Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
     
    • Celery: Distributed Task Queue is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Resque.

    • Celery: Distributed Task Queue is Free and Open SourceResque is also Free and Open Source
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    Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby. Sidekiq uses threads to handle many jobs at the same time in the same process. It does not require Rails but will integrate tightly with Rails to make background processing dead simple.

    6 sidekiq alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Redis
    • Ruby on Rails
     
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    Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify - collectiveidea/delayed_job

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Redis
    • Ruby on Rails
     
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    An easy way to perform background processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required. Backed by persistent storage. Open and free for commercial use.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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