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Show HN: Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering

26 pointsby ent1c3dlast Wednesday at 1:45 PM5 commentsview on HN

Setting up Kafka or such enterprise oriented software with their clusters or dedicated servers is heavy and bothering enough that most small teams or indie hackers skip it entirely and making compromise to use in-memory queues.

I wanted something in between: a persistent queue that is simple to run (one binary, which makes one sqlite db), gets real fault isolation and crash recovery due to Elixir, easy to inspect (open ezra.db in any SQLite browser and see every task), and requires no new client library - it speaks the Redis Streams wire protocol, so any Redis client in any language just works out of the box.

Very short demo video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLYyD3DVWmE]


Comments

abrookewoodtoday at 6:21 AM

Congrats on the launch. Using the Redis protocol was a pretty clever choice. Does it have to run as a stand-alone server?

neoecostoday at 6:04 AM

Oban is really awesome, are you inspired by it?

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cpursleytoday at 6:13 AM

This is nice. For those wanting to stay on Postgres for DAG type of workflows, check out pgmq based PgFlow: https://github.com/agoodway/pgflow

tenwz1today at 6:16 AM

good

anapekshalast Thursday at 6:58 AM

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