apalis

apalis is a simple, extensible multithreaded background job processing library for Rust.

Features

Simple and predictable job handling model.
Jobs handlers with a macro free API.
Take full advantage of the [tower] ecosystem of middleware, services, and utilities.
Runtime agnostic - Use tokio, smol etc.
Optional Web interface to help you manage your jobs.

apalis job processing is powered by [tower::Service] which means you have access to the [tower] middleware.

apalis has support for

Redis
SQlite
PostgresSQL
MySQL
Cron Jobs
Bring Your Own Job Source eg Twitter streams

Getting Started

To get started, just add to Cargo.toml

toml [dependencies] apalis = { version = "0.4", features = ["redis"] }

Usage

```rust use apalis::prelude::*; use apalis::redis::RedisStorage; use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize}; use anyhow::Result;

[derive(Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]

struct Email { to: String, }

async fn email_service(job: Email, ctx: JobContext) { info!("Do something"); }

[tokio::main]

async fn main() -> Result<()> { std::env::setvar("RUSTLOG", "debug"); envlogger::init(); let redis = std::env::var("REDISURL").expect("Missing env variable REDISURL"); let storage = RedisStorage::new(redis).await?; Monitor::new() .registerwithcount(2, move || { WorkerBuilder::new("email-worker-1") .withstorage(storage.clone()) .buildfn(emailservice) }) .run() .await }

```

Then

```rust //This can be in another part of the program or another application async fn produceroutejobs(storage: &RedisStorage) -> Result<()> { let mut storage = storage.clone(); storage .push(Email { to: "test@example.com".to_string(), }) .await?; }

```

Web UI

If you are running apalis Board, you can easily manage your jobs. See a working Rest API here

Feature flags

tracing (enabled by default) — Support Tracing 👀
redis — Include redis storage
postgres — Include Postgres storage
sqlite — Include SQlite storage
mysql — Include MySql storage
cron — Include cron job processing
sentry — Support for Sentry exception and performance monitoring
prometheus — Support Prometheus metrics
retry — Support direct retrying jobs
timeout — Support timeouts on jobs
limit — 💪 Limit the amount of jobs
filter — Support filtering jobs based on a predicate
extensions — Add a global extensions to jobs

Storage Comparison

Since we provide a few storage solutions, here is a table comparing them:

| Feature | Redis | Sqlite | Postgres | Sled | Mysql | Mongo | Cron | | :-------------- | :---: | :----: | :------: | :--: | :---: | :---: | :--: | | Scheduled jobs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | | Retry jobs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | | Persistence | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | BYO | | Rerun Dead jobs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | x |

How apalis works (Draft)

```mermaid sequenceDiagram participant App participant Worker participant Postgres

App->>+Worker: Add job to queue
Worker->>+Postgres: Poll queue for job
Postgres-->>-Worker: Job data
Worker->>+Postgres: Update job status to 'running'
Postgres-->>-Worker: Confirmation
Worker->>+App: Notify job started
loop job execution
    Worker-->>-App: Report job progress
end
Worker->>+Postgres: Update job status to 'completed'
Postgres-->>-Worker: Confirmation
Worker->>+App: Notify job completed

```

Thanks to

[tower] - Tower is a library of modular and reusable components for building robust networking clients and servers.
redis-rs - Redis library for rust
sqlx - The Rust SQL Toolkit

Roadmap

v 0.4

[x] Move from actor based to layer based processing
[x] Graceful Shutdown
[x] Allow other types of executors apart from Tokio
[x] Mock/Test Worker
[x] Improve monitoring
[ ] Improve apalis Board
[x] Add job progress via layer
[x] Add more sources

v 0.3

[x] Standardize API (Storage, Worker, Data, Middleware, Context )
[x] Introduce SQL
[x] Implement layers for Sentry and Tracing.
[x] Improve documentation
[x] Organized modules and features.
[x] Basic Web API Interface
[x] Sql Examples
[x] Sqlx migrations

v 0.2

[x] Redis Example
[x] Actix Web Example

Resources

Background job processing with rust using actix and redis

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

Njuguna Mureithi - Initial work - Njuguna Mureithi

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

It was formerly actix-redis-jobs and if you want to use the crate name please contact me.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

Inspiration: The redis part of this project is heavily inspired by Curlyq which is written in GoLang