What is Faktory?
Redis -> Sidekiq == Faktory -> Faktory. Faktory is a server daemon which provides a simple API to produce and consume background jobs. Jobs are a small JSON hash with a few mandatory keys.
Faktory is a tool in the Background Processing category of a tech stack.
Faktory is an open source tool with 5.5K GitHub stars and 221 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Faktory's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Faktory?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Faktory in their tech stacks, including Nous, frontend, and ACK Foundry.
Developers
Faktory Integrations
JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Java, and PHP are some of the popular tools that integrate with Faktory. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Faktory.
Pros of Faktory
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Faktory Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Faktory?
Sidekiq
Sidekiq uses threads to handle many jobs at the same time in the same process. It does not require Rails but will integrate tightly with Rails 3/4 to make background processing dead simple.
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
