Background job processing for Go
go get -u github.com/acaloiaro/neoq
Neoq is a queue-agnostic background job framework for Go.
Queue-agnostic means that whether you're using an in-memory queue for developing and testing, or Postgres or Redis queue in production -- your job processing code doesn't change. Job handlers are agnostic to the queue providing jobs. It also means that you can mix queue types within a single application. If you have ephemeral or periodic tasks, you may want to process them in an in-memory queue, and use Postgres or Redis queues for jobs requiring queue durability.
Neoq aims to be simple, reliable, easy to integrate, and demand a minimal infrastructure footprint by providing queue backends that match your existing tech stack.
- Multiple Backends: In-memory, Postgres, Redis, or user-supplied custom backends.
- Retries: Jobs may be retried a configurable number of times with exponential backoff and jitter to prevent thundering herds
- Job uniqueness: jobs are fingerprinted based on their payload and status to prevent job duplication (multiple jobs with the same payload are not re-queued)
- Job Timeouts: Queue handlers can be configured with per-job timeouts with millisecond accuracy
- Periodic Jobs: Jobs can be scheduled periodically using standard cron syntax
- Future Jobs: Jobs can be scheduled in the future
- Concurrency: Concurrency is configurable for every queue
Getting started is as simple as declaring queue handlers and adding jobs. You can create multiple neoq instances with different backends to meet your application's needs. E.g. an in-memory backend instance for ephemeral jobs and a Postgres backend instance for queue durability between application restarts.
Additional documentation can be found in the wiki: https://github.com/acaloiaro/neoq/wiki
Error handling in this section is excluded for simplicity.
Queue handlers listen for Jobs on queues. Jobs may consist of any payload that is JSON-serializable.
Queue Handlers are simple Go functions that accept a Context
parameter.
Example: Add a listener on the hello_world
queue using the default in-memory backend
ctx := context.Background()
nq, _ := neoq.New(ctx)
nq.Start(ctx, "hello_world", handler.New(func(ctx context.Context) (err error) {
j, _ := jobs.FromContext(ctx)
log.Println("got job id:", j.ID, "messsage:", j.Payload["message"])
return
}))
Enqueuing adds jobs to the specified queue to be processed asynchronously.
Example: Add a "Hello World" job to the hello_world
queue using the default in-memory backend.
ctx := context.Background()
nq, _ := neoq.New(ctx)
nq.Enqueue(ctx, &jobs.Job{
Queue: "hello_world",
Payload: map[string]interface{}{
"message": "hello world",
},
})
Example: Process jobs on the "hello_world" queue and add a job to it using the redis backend
ctx := context.Background()
nq, _ := neoq.New(ctx,
neoq.WithBackend(redis.Backend),
redis.WithAddr("localhost:6379"),
redis.WithPassword(""))
nq.Start(ctx, "hello_world", handler.New(func(ctx context.Context) (err error) {
j, _ := jobs.FromContext(ctx)
log.Println("got job id:", j.ID, "messsage:", j.Payload["message"])
return
}))
nq.Enqueue(ctx, &jobs.Job{
Queue: "hello_world",
Payload: map[string]interface{}{
"message": "hello world",
},
})
Example: Process jobs on the "hello_world" queue and add a job to it using the postgres backend
ctx := context.Background()
nq, _ := neoq.New(ctx,
neoq.WithBackend(postgres.Backend),
postgres.WithConnectionString("postgres://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1:5432/neoq"),
)
nq.Start(ctx, "hello_world", handler.New(func(ctx context.Context) (err error) {
j, _ := jobs.FromContext(ctx)
log.Println("got job id:", j.ID, "messsage:", j.Payload["message"])
return
}))
nq.Enqueue(ctx, &jobs.Job{
Queue: "hello_world",
Payload: map[string]interface{}{
"message": "hello world",
},
})
Additional example integration code can be found at https://github.com/acaloiaro/neoq/tree/main/examples
This project is currently in alpha. Future releases may change the API.