Hatchet
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task queue
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How HN took it
13 positive, 51 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 13 critical, out of 78 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Idea: 4 for, 9 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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Interest in Postgres-based queueing and River comparison
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The underlying queue is very similar. See this comment, which details how we're different from a library client: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39644327. We also have the…
abelanger on HN
Objections
RabbitMQ dependency is confusing for a Postgres-based queue
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Thank you, appreciate the kind words! What boxes are you looking to check? Yes, I'm not a fan of the RabbitMQ dependency either - see here for the reasoning:…
abelanger on HN
Concern that a hyperscaler could offer a competing hosted service under MIT license
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Thank you! > Do you publish pricing for your cloud offering? Not yet, we're rolling out the cloud offering slowly to make sure we don't experience any widespread outages. As soon…
abelanger on HN
Requests
Better visibility into argument serialization and typing
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Appreciate it, thank you! We've spent quite a bit of time in the Celery Flower console. Admittedly it's been a while, I'm not sure if they've added views for chains/groups/etc -…
abelanger on HN
Support for fanning out child workflows from array results
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You can execute a new workflow programmatically, for example see [1]. So people have triggered, for example, 50 child workflows from a parent step. As you've identified the…
abelanger on HN
Questions
Why take YC funding for dev infra
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Wow, looks great! We currently happily use graphile-worker, and have two questions: > full transactional enqueueing Do you mean transactional within the same transaction as the…
stephen on HN
How the cloud business will make money from an open-source product
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Nice, Waka looks cool! I've talked a bit about the tradeoffs with library-mode pollers, for example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39644327. Which isn't to say they…
abelanger on HN
Alternatives named
Celery
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BullMQ
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Temporal
From 1 comment
It's very similar - I used Temporal at a previous company to run a couple million workflows per month. The gRPC networking with workers is the most similar component, I…
abelanger on HN
River
From 1 comment
The underlying queue is very similar. See this comment, which details how we're different from a library client: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39644327. We also have the…
abelanger on HN