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statelyai/xstate

State machines, statecharts, and actors for complex logic

AI dev
Stack
TypeScript Angular Express React Svelte npm pnpm
GitHub topics
#actor-model #background-jobs #finite-state-machine #fsm #interpreter #javascript
Updated
2026-10-09
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2015-09-14
History
1 history point
License
MIT
Issues
121 open
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30,294
stars
Forks
1,401
Commits
6,982 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Website GitHub
triggerdotdev/trigger.dev

Trigger.dev – build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows

AI dev
Stack
TypeScript Express Next.js React Remix npm pnpm Yarn
GitHub topics
#ai #ai-agent-framework #ai-agents #automation #background-jobs #mcp
Updated
2026-09-07
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2022-11-30
History
7 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
350 open
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16,230
stars
Forks
1,443
Commits
8,030 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Website GitHub
resque/resque

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.

Stack
Ruby Sinatra Bundler
GitHub topics
#asynchronous-tasks #asynctask #background-jobs #background-service #background-worker #job-management
Updated
2026-09-16
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2009-08-12
History
6 history points
License
MIT
Issues
72 open
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9,468
stars
Forks
1,657
Commits
1,882 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Website GitHub
svix/svix-webhooks

The open source and enterprise-ready webhooks service 🦀

Stack
Rust Axum Express pytest Bundler Cargo Composer
GitHub topics
#api #background-jobs #background-tasks #event-driven #kafka #message-queue
Updated
2026-10-02
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2021-02-14
History
8 history points
License
MIT
Issues
61 open
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3,429
stars
Forks
289
Commits
3,974 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Website GitHub
karafka/karafka

Ruby and Rails efficient Kafka processing framework

Stack
Ruby Ruby on Rails Sinatra Bundler npm
GitHub topics
#active-job #activejob-backend #apache-kafka #background-jobs #events #kafka
Updated
2026-10-03
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2015-07-30
History
6 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
83 open
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2,252
stars
Forks
187
Commits
2,897 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Website GitHub
django-background-tasks/django-background-tasks

A database-backed work queue for Django

Stack
Python Django pip
GitHub topics
#background-jobs #background-sync #background-thread #django #python #queue
Updated
2025-06-19
Lists
0 list mentions
First commit
2010-02-15
History
40 history points
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
99 open
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623
stars
Forks
150
Commits
421 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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wakatime/wakaq

Background task queue for Python backed by Redis, a super minimal Celery

Stack
Python PEP 517 pip
GitHub topics
#async #asynchronous-tasks #background-jobs #celery #distributed #job-queue
Updated
2026-05-21
Lists
0 list mentions
First commit
2022-08-27
History
40 history points
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
0 open
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594
stars
Forks
20
Commits
390 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Website GitHub