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 Processing category of a tech stack.
Faktory is an open source tool with 5.5K GitHub stars and 224 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Faktory's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Faktory?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Faktory in their tech stacks, including Nous, frontend, and ACK Foundry.
Developers
Faktory Integrations
JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Java, and PHP are some of the popular tools that integrate with Faktory. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Faktory.
Pros of Faktory
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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.
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
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.
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.
