Oban is a robust and flexible background job processing library for Elixir, built on top of PostgreSQL and Ecto; it focuses on delivering reliability, consistency, observability, and historical insight into job execution, making it well-suited for fault-tolerant, production-grade workloads.

Features

  • Background job scheduling and execution via a consistent API
  • Jobs persisted in PostgreSQL for durability and auditability
  • Fault-tolerant with retry logic, backoff strategies, and crash recovery
  • Observability with job history and heartbeat tracking for introspection
  • Supports concurrent queues and worker configuration for scalability
  • Easily integrates with Elixir/Ecto applications

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Apache License V2.0

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Programming Language

Elixir

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Elixir Libraries

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2025-08-29