Hangfire vs PHP-FPM: What are the differences?

Hangfire: Perform background processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. 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; PHP-FPM: * An alternative FastCGI daemon for PHP*. 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.

Hangfire and PHP-FPM can be primarily classified as "Background Processing" tools.

Hangfire is an open source tool with 4.93K GitHub stars and 1.12K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hangfire's open source repository on GitHub.

Gbase, TrackJS, and PagueVeloz are some of the popular companies that use Hangfire, whereas PHP-FPM is used by nefisyemektarifleri.com, OTTLabs, and ARENA. Hangfire has a broader approval, being mentioned in 9 company stacks & 9 developers stacks; compared to PHP-FPM, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.