Faktory

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 Jobs category of a tech stack.

Faktory Pros & Cons

Pros of Faktory

✓Worker language agnostic
✓Simple service API

Cons of Faktory

No cons listed yet.

Faktory Integrations

Node.js, Ruby, Python, Golang, Elixir and 3 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Faktory. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Faktory.

PHP

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.

Hangfire

It is an open-source framework that helps you to create, process and manage your background jobs, i.e. operations you don't want to put in your request processing pipeline. It supports all kind of background tasks – short-running and long-running, CPU intensive and I/O intensive, one shot and recurrent.

Cron

Background-only application which launches and runs other applications, or opens documents, at specified dates and times.

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.

Faktory Integrations

Node.js, Ruby, Python, Golang, Elixir and 3 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Faktory. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Faktory.