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This release unifies configuration for queues, repos, and services, swaps opaque timing integers for readable durations, and backports per-entry cron timezones and attempt-preserving snoozes from Oban Pro. :gear: Unifie…
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or put another way, can I run a chunked worker on a queue which has no global limit set?
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I’m sharing my plugin here in forum after some time so it has time to mature and proof yourself.
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A downstream job that deps on a graft correctly waits for the grafted jobs at one graft level, but stops waiting when the workflo...
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Hi there! We created Gust: A task orchestrator inspired by Airflow.
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Today we’re releasing Oban for Python. Not an Oban client in Python. Not a pythonx wrapper embedded in Elixir. Nope, it’s a fully operati...
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This release unifies configuration for queues, repos, and services, swaps opaque timing integers for readable durations, and backports pe...
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Name: Federico Meini
Location: Italy (UTC+1/+2)
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Work experience: Backend engineer with more ...
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Name: Rodrigo Álvarez
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Available for full remote backend/fullstack work.
Experience: More than 20 years, 20 of t...
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apply_graft/2 doesn’t rewrite an add_many sub-workflow’s deps on an add step. Grafted jobs cancel with “upstream job was deleted”
Version...
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Hello!
tl;dr Announcing Oban, an Ecto based job processing library with a focus on reliability and historical observability.
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Announcing ErrorTracker, an Elixir-based built-in error tracking solution.
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Hello,
I’m sharing my plugin here in forum after some time so it has time to mature and proof yourself.
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The Problem
Currently, if I define a struct in the following way:
defmodule MyStruct do
# Both x and y will have the FIXED values unti...
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We’re using Oban.Pro 1.14
we have 23 queues
we use partitioning
we use uniqueness
we use local limits
we use global limits
we use...
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Oban Chore provides an Oban plugin to generate a dashboard to run Oban jobs
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In previous jobs, I often had to run Oban jobs...
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We’re seeing failures in our CI pipeline starting about an hour ago when the runner tries to add the Oban Pro hex repo:
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A new article showcasing some of Oban, and Oban Pro’s, distinct agentic workflow abilities.
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Hi! :wave:
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Oban.Web is a view of Oban’s inner workings that you host directly within your Phoenix application. Powered by Oban Metrics and Phoenix L...
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The Oban Training 101 curriculum is extracted from our in-person training from ElixirConf 2023. It’s designed to teach everything you nee...
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The title doesn’t relay the depth of this announcement, but it is short, balanced, and looked good to us. From open sourcing multiple pac...
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