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Job queue

A library or service that stores background jobs or tasks and runs them with workers, with retries (a task queue); not a general message broker.

The 72repositories with this Tag gained +1,622 net stars in the last 30 days, 11% more than the 30 days before.

0 created in the last 90 days · 24 published a release in the last 30 days · 269K stars in total

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Net stars each day, last 30 days+435 last 7 days

Oct 6, 2026Nov 4, 2026

Most net stars, last 30 days

triggerdotdev/trigger.dev

Trigger.dev – build and deploy durable AI agents and workflows

+257

17% of the net stars of this Tag

Largest Pace, last 30 days

celery/celery

Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

2.1×

+224 net stars, against +109 in the 30 days before

Most stars, created in the last 90 days

No other repository with this Tag was created in the last 90 days.

Where the stars went, last 13 weeks

Net stars gained each week. The repositories that gained the most have their own color.

triggerdotdev/trigger.dev gained 18% of the net stars of this Tag in the last 13 weeks.

triggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Aug 12: +83 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Aug 12: +42 net starscelery/celery, week to Aug 12: +22 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Aug 12: +31 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Aug 12: +29 net starsAll other repositories, week to Aug 12: +180 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Aug 19: +75 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Aug 19: +45 net starscelery/celery, week to Aug 19: +23 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Aug 19: +35 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Aug 19: +33 net starsAll other repositories, week to Aug 19: +164 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Aug 26: +69 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Aug 26: +39 net starscelery/celery, week to Aug 26: +31 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Aug 26: +21 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Aug 26: +27 net starsAll other repositories, week to Aug 26: +201 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 2: +62 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 2: +51 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 2: +35 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 2: +24 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 2: +35 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 2: +180 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 9: +54 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 9: +67 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 9: +24 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 9: +30 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 9: +19 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 9: +152 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 16: +61 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 16: +48 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 16: +32 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 16: +39 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 16: +30 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 16: +141 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 23: +78 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 23: +39 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 23: +25 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 23: +44 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 23: +27 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 23: +174 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Sep 30: +70 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Sep 30: +48 net starscelery/celery, week to Sep 30: +23 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Sep 30: +24 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Sep 30: +22 net starsAll other repositories, week to Sep 30: +151 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Oct 7: +55 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Oct 7: +46 net starscelery/celery, week to Oct 7: +20 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Oct 7: +18 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Oct 7: +23 net starsAll other repositories, week to Oct 7: +137 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Oct 14: +65 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Oct 14: +42 net starscelery/celery, week to Oct 14: +54 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Oct 14: +31 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Oct 14: +36 net starsAll other repositories, week to Oct 14: +171 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Oct 21: +55 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Oct 21: +49 net starscelery/celery, week to Oct 21: +58 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Oct 21: +24 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Oct 21: +24 net starsAll other repositories, week to Oct 21: +146 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Oct 28: +54 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Oct 28: +33 net starscelery/celery, week to Oct 28: +67 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Oct 28: +36 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Oct 28: +28 net starsAll other repositories, week to Oct 28: +123 net starstriggerdotdev/trigger.dev, week to Nov 4: +65 net starshatchet-dev/hatchet, week to Nov 4: +28 net starscelery/celery, week to Nov 4: +41 net starsskypilot-org/skypilot, week to Nov 4: +30 net starsriverqueue/river, week to Nov 4: +30 net starsAll other repositories, week to Nov 4: +103 net stars

Compare growth

19 of 72 repositories: Created more than 2 years ago, with a push in the last 7 days and a GitHub release in the last 30 days. Select a column name to change the order.

#RepositoryStarsGained, 90 daysPace
1celery/celery

Distributed Task Queue (development branch)

29K+4501.1×
2triggerdotdev/trigger.dev

Trigger.dev – build and deploy durable AI agents and workflows

17K+8400.7×
3skypilot-org/skypilot

The AI Compute Platform for frontier teams. SkyPilot turns fragmented AI compute into one AI supercomputer, so frontier AI teams build custom intelligence faster.

11K+3830.7×
4rq/rq

Simple job queues for Python

11K+60–
5agenda/agenda

Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js

9.7K+32–
6taskforcesh/bullmq

BullMQ - Message Queue and Batch processing for NodeJS, Python, .NET, Elixir, Rust and PHP based on Redis or PostgreSQL

9.6K+3540.8×
7resque/resque

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

9.5K+6–
8hatchet-dev/hatchet

🪓 An orchestration engine for background tasks, AI agents, and durable workflows

8.2K+5691.0×
9coleifer/huey

a little task queue for python

6.1K+83–
10riverqueue/river

The polyglot queue: Fast and reliable background jobs in Go, Java, JS, Ruby, and Rust on Postgres/SQLite.

5.9K+3620.8×
11timgit/pg-boss

Queueing jobs in Postgres from Node.js like a boss

4.1K+3090.9×
12Arcenox-co/TickerQ

TickerQ is a fast, reflection-free background task scheduler for .NET built with source generators, EF Core integration, cron + time-based execution, and a real-time dashboard.

3.6K+72–
13jobrunr/jobrunr

An extremely easy way to perform background processing in Java. Backed by persistent storage. Open and free for commercial use.

3.1K+74–
14bensheldon/good_job

Multithreaded, Postgres-based, Active Job backend for Ruby on Rails.

3K+16–
15rails/solid_queue

Database-backed Active Job backend

2.5K+40–
16FoundatioFx/Foundatio

Pluggable foundation blocks for building distributed apps.

2.1K+8–
17gearman/gearmand

The repository host gives no description.

764+4–
18nesquena/backburner

Simple and reliable beanstalkd job queue for ruby

442+9–
19dereuromark/cakephp-queue

Queue plugin for CakePHP - simple, pure PHP and without dependencies.

309+1–

Faster than the 30 days before

Net stars of the last 30 days are 2 or more times those of the 30 days before.

  1. celery/celery2.1× · +224

Slower than the 30 days before

Net stars of the last 30 days are 50% or less of those of the 30 days before.

No repository with this Tag meets this rule now.

New in the last 90 days

Created on GitHub in the last 90 days.

No repository with this Tag meets this rule now.

Older than 2 years, still releasing

Created more than 2 years ago, with a push in the last 7 days and a GitHub release in the last 30 days.

  1. celery/celery29K · release 17 days ago
  2. triggerdotdev/trigger.dev17K · release 5 days ago
  3. skypilot-org/skypilot11K · release 7 days ago
  4. rq/rq11K · release 7 days ago
  5. agenda/agenda9.7K · release 4 days ago
All 19 in the table

Last release more than 180 days ago

The newest GitHub release is more than 180 days old. A repository that never published a release is not in this list.

  1. OptimalBits/bull16K · release last year
  2. hibiken/asynq14K · release 9 months ago
  3. antirez/disque8.1K · release 10 years ago
  4. RichardKnop/machinery8K · release last year
  5. collectiveidea/delayed_job4.8K · release 10 months ago
All 23 in the table

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