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25th October 2017 - Link Blog

Introducing Faktory. A brand new worker queue system from Mike Perham, the author of Sidekiq for Ruby. It’s written in Go on top of RocksDB and is explicitly designed to support clients and workers in multiple different languages.

Posted 25th October 2017 at 3:09 am

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