Motivation

We've used database-backed background job libraries in production for years, and we've found that they are a great choice for a lot of applications.

After working on a handful of applications, we felt there was room for improvement with the libraries in the TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystem for working with background jobs. The most popular job processing libraries in the ecosystem use Redis, which is a great tool, but we wanted to use a database that we were already using in our applications. Additionally, databases allow for transactional guarantees, so we can avoid inserting jobs into the queue if the transaction fails. We primarily wanted to be able to use TypeScript to work with our background jobs and have a great developer experience.

Our focus is on relational databases, namely PostgreSQL, but we are open to supporting other relational databases in the future.

This is the first open-source project we've worked on together, and we're excited to share it with you!