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Goose

A background job processing library for Clojure
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What is Goose?

It is a simple, reliable & scalable background processing library for Clojure. It has a transparent design & cloud-native architecture.
Goose is a tool in the Background Processing category of a tech stack.
Goose is an open source tool with 240 GitHub stars and 9 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Goose's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Goose?

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Goose's Features

  • Reliable - code/hardware/network failure won't cause data loss
  • Transparent design & cloud-native architecture
  • Scheduling
  • Error handling & retries
  • Concurrency & parallelism using java thread-pools
  • Unit, integration & performance tests

Goose Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Goose?
Sidekiq
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Hangfire
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Cron
Background-only application which launches and runs other applications, or opens documents, at specified dates and times.
Resque
Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds to perform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to background jobs or you can create new classes specifically to do work. Or, you can do both.
PHP-FPM
It is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. It includes Adaptive process spawning, Advanced process management with graceful stop/start, Emergency restart in case of accidental opcode cache destruction etc.
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