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Fireworq vs Resque: What are the differences?
Fireworq: A lightweight, high-performance, language-independent job queue system. Fireworq is a lightweight, high-performance job queue system available from any programming language which can talk HTTP. It works with a single binary without external dependencies; Resque: A Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. 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.
Fireworq and Resque can be categorized as "Background Processing" tools.
Fireworq and Resque are both open source tools. Resque with 8.54K GitHub stars and 1.57K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Fireworq with 1.77K GitHub stars and 77 GitHub forks.
Pros of Fireworq
Pros of Resque
- Free5
- Scalable3
- Easy to use on heroku1