Procrastinate
PostgreSQL-backed task queue for Python automation
Procrastinate is an open-source Python task queue that uses PostgreSQL as its backing store, with support for scheduling, retries and priorities. It is self-hosted within Python applications for background automation.
Key features
- Postgres-backed task queue
- Scheduling and retries
- No extra broker needed
- Python-native
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Active community (1.4k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
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