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by sorentwo 3y ago
I’d argue strongly that Oban did invent things, including parts of the underlying structure used in River, and the authors agree that it was a heavy influence. While there is no overlap in technology or structure with Sidekiq, the original
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by sorentwo 3y ago
The number of features lifted directly from Oban[1] is astounding, considering there isn't any attribution in the announcement post or the repo. Starting with the project's tagline, "Robust job processing in Elixir", let
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by sorentwo 3y ago
> Work in a transaction has other benefits too. Postgres’ NOTIFY respects transactions, so the moment a job is ready to work a job queue can wake a worker to work it, bringing the mean delay before work happens down to the sub-millisecon
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by sorentwo 3y ago
The very first paying Pro customer, as a matter of fact =) You said back then that you planned on pursuing a Go client; now, four years later, here we are. River looks excellent, and the blog post does a fantastic job explaining all the ben
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Oban Starts Where Elixir Tasks End(getoban.pro)
2 points by sorentwo 3y ago|0 comments
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by sorentwo 3y ago
To do anything safe and interesting you’ll need transactions. Using SKIP LOCKED won’t be your bottleneck, your application will. Job queues are about side effects and the rest of your application needs to keep up. Oban is able to run over 1
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Oban Web v2.10 RC Released(getoban.pro)
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by sorentwo 4y ago
> I wonder what makes Sidekiq special? Time, know-how, and long term dedication are the key ingredients from my perspective. Maybe he's working 10-20 hours now, but there's support and development every day for the past 11 year
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by sorentwo 4y ago
That thread says the opposite at the end. The ban they were referring to was over a decade prior. Ericsson has a dedicated team that maintains and actively improves Erlang with new features and capabilities.
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by sorentwo 4y ago
There are ample Elixir jobs out there, and lots of companies hiring. For a quick check of relative popularity, open the past couple monthly “Who’s Hiring” here and search for “Elixir.” The community is thriving and growing.