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graphile / worker

worker

High performance Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue (also suitable for getting jobs generated by PostgreSQL triggers/functions out into a different work queue)

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23Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

High performance Node.js/PostgreSQL job queue (also suitable for getting jobs generated by PostgreSQL triggers/functions out into a different work queue)

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:02:26 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year23 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-11-08 19:45:33 UTC to 2026-04-30 19:20:56 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Anybody using graphile-worker[1] in production/heavy load? It looks awesome, and I coded up some simple prototype tasks (email, sms, etc), but question how it truly scales. They claim horizontal scaling is trivial. > graphile-worker is horizontally scalable. Each instance has a customisable worker pool, this pool defaults to size 1 (only one job at a time on this worker) but depending on the nature of your tasks (i.e. assuming they're not compute-heavy) you will likely want to set this higher to benefit from Node.js' concurrency. [1] https://github.com/graphile/worker
In Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)
ezzato·Mar 15, 2021Submission

Show HN: Ad network for side projects has launched

I'm excited to have launched Tiny Ads. https://tinyads.io A privacy respecting ad network for side projects. It's an old idea (web rings) lifted for a niche. Tiny Ads wants to become a network of smaller projects by linking each other on their respected landing page. The ad will provide a standardized way to display projects across the web. Like a feed layer on top your web page. New users will find your project by hopping from page to the next. I hope to create a positive sum game here. 3 weeks ago I posted a here and got positive feedback. So, thank you. I took it from demo to product spending on average 2 hours a day. The backend is written in nodejs + postgres hosted on hetzner. I'm running it on the cheapest tier ~3Euro. Most of the heavy lifting is done by postgres + graphile/worker [https://github.com/graphile/worker]. Images are
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cached on cloudflare and the server just sends ~400 btyes of json telling the browser what to fetch. I'm genuilly interested how much traffic I can handle with just 3 Euro. The frontend is pretty dumb. Simple html (4kb) with a bit of alpinejs.
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