August 08, 2023

163: Job Queues using Oban with Parker Selbert

55 minutes

If you need background jobs or scheduled tasks in your Elixir project, you've probably already heard of Oban. We talk with Parker Selbert, the creator and maintainer of Oban, to learn more about the project and the additional paid features in Oban Web and Oban Pro. Parker explains the origins, why it's architected the way it is, and how the paid extensions work. We also get some insights into companies using Oban and the kind of scale people reach. Spoiler--100's of millions of jobs is a thing.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/163

Elixir Community News

https://elixirforum.com/t/nerves-supports-erlang-otp-26-and-elixir-1-15-now/57344 – Nerves updated to support OTP 26 and Elixir 1.15

https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1686350499967123456 – Phoenix LiveView 0.19 had some enhancements that German Valesco highlights in a video

https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1684418487987441665 – Zigler 0.10.1 was released

https://github.com/E-xyza/zigler/

https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/beam.html – Zigler's BEAM integration docs

https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1685390898329178114 – Private modules in Elixir? Using @moduledoc false

https://elixirforum.com/t/proposal-private-modules-general-discussion/19374 – Previous discussion on private modules

https://dev.to/savonarola/testing-timer-based-logic-in-elixir-with-klotho-library-2c90 – Klotho library may help with timer based testing logic

https://twitter.com/spawnfest/status/1683788630156877825 – SpawnFest will be Oct 28 - 29

https://spawnfest.org/ – SpawnFest is an annual, 48 hour, online software development contest in which teams from around the world get exactly one weekend to create the best BEAM-based app they can.

https://github.com/meanderingstream/dl_foundations_in_elixir/blob/main/ElixirFashionML_Challenge/fashion_mnist_challenge.livemd – There's an ML challenge

https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirfashionmlchallenge-general-discussion-questions/57341 – ML challenge discussion thread

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Discussion Resources

https://getoban.pro/

https://github.com/sorentwo/oban – OSS Oban project

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/29 – Previous interview with Parker from January 2021

https://dscout.com/

https://getoban.pro/oban – Oban Web demo

https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq

https://github.com/sorentwo/kiq

https://github.com/dashbitco/bytepack_archive

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/sorentwo – on Twitter

https://github.com/sorentwo – on Github

https://sorentwo.com/ – Blog

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