README
Simple, reliable & efficient distributed task queue in Go
Asynq is a Go library for queueing tasks and processing them asynchronously with workers. It's backed by Redis and is designed to be scalable yet easy to get started.
Highlevel overview of how Asynq works:
- Client puts tasks on a queue
- Server pulls tasks off queues and starts a worker goroutine for each task
- Tasks are processed concurrently by multiple workers
Task queues are used as a mechanism to distribute work across multiple machines. A system can consist of multiple worker servers and brokers, giving way to high availability and horizontal scaling.
Example use case
Features
- Guaranteed at least one execution of a task
- Scheduling of tasks
- Retries of failed tasks
- Automatic recovery of tasks in the event of a worker crash