What is Fireworq?
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.
Fireworq is a tool in the Background Processing category of a tech stack.
Fireworq is an open source tool with 2.2K GitHub stars and 104 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Fireworq's open source repository on GitHub
Fireworq's Features
- Portability
- Reliability
- Availability
- Scalability
- Flexibility
- Maintainability
Fireworq Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Fireworq?
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.
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.
Beanstalkd
Beanstalks's interface is generic, but was originally designed for reducing the latency of page views in high-volume web applications by running time-consuming tasks asynchronously.