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Re:How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table by zanellato19 on Thursday November 27, 2025 @08:13AM (#46068934)
I feel like this is basically what the Rails world does. Sidekiq handles a lot of this for you and it's honestly an amazing tool.

It does rely on redis, but it's basically the same idea.

Re:How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table by owenmakes on Thursday November 27, 2025 @08:33AM (#46069082)
In Rails 8 you have SolidQueue by default, which doesn't rely on redis
Re:How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table by arkh on Thursday November 27, 2025 @11:01AM (#46070470)
Same thing with Symfony and its Messenger component when setup to use a database.