January 21, 2026
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 operational, PostgreSQL backed, typed, async, pythonic-as-we-could-muster implementation o…
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A long-running GenServer holds orders, positions, strategy state, and operational flags for a system trading real capital. The post walks...
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Oban.Pro.Migration.up(version: "1.7.0", only: :indexes) fails on partitioned oban_jobs table when upgrading Oban Pro from 1.6 to 1.7
def...
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A look at five separate data flows inside a GenServer-per-session system and the design rules that fall out of each one: persist only wha...
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A graft inside another graft causes Oban.Pro.Workflow.status to recurse forever. oban_pro 1.7.5
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If you’re using Oban in APIs, CLI apps, workers, or minimal Plug/Cowboy setups, Ocelot gives you a simple dashboard to inspect jobs witho...
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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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Does the Worker.await_signal work with Workflow.add_many?
I’d like to wait for every job in the add_many to complete (including awaiting...
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Hi, I’m using Oban Pro v1.6.13 with a queue configured like this:
queue1: [
local_limit: 5,
global_limit: [
allowed: 1,
burs...
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Environment
Elixir 1.18.3-otp-27 / OTP 27.3.4
Oban 2.20.2
Phoenix 1.7.x
db_connection 2.8.1 / Postgrex 0.21.1
Infrastructure: Google Cl...
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HOTTEST Oban THIS WEEK!
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Hi everyone,
I’m currently working on a project using Oban Pro 1.4.0 with Smart Engine, and I need some guidance on configuring a queue ...
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Oban Chore provides an Oban plugin to generate a dashboard to run Oban jobs
Motivation
In previous jobs, I often had to run Oban jobs...
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I’m looking at upgrading to Oban Pro 1.7, and I’m wondering if anyone has real-word numbers to share on how much 1.7 has improved applica...
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A look at five separate data flows inside a GenServer-per-session system and the design rules that fall out of each one: persist only wha...
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A long-running GenServer holds orders, positions, strategy state, and operational flags for a system trading real capital. The post walks...
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A graft inside another graft causes Oban.Pro.Workflow.status to recurse forever. oban_pro 1.7.5
defmodule App.NestedGraftRepro.Test do
...
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Oban.Pro.Migration.up(version: "1.7.0", only: :indexes) fails on partitioned oban_jobs table when upgrading Oban Pro from 1.6 to 1.7
def...
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HOTTEST Oban THIS YEAR!
Hello!
tl;dr Announcing Oban, an Ecto based job processing library with a focus on reliability and historical observability.
After spen...
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Hey folks,
I wanted to share with you a project I’ve been working on for a while: It’s an Open Source (AGPLv3) newsletter tool. Think Ma...
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Announcing ErrorTracker, an Elixir-based built-in error tracking solution.
Features
Basic, free, built-in error tracking solution. Trac...
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Hi there! We created Gust: A task orchestrator inspired by Airflow.
For those who have never heard about Aiflow, it’s a Python-based wor...
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Hello!
Suppose you are building workflow (order / task / payment) processing system with the following requirements:
Each workflow con...
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Hi everyone :waving_hand:
I wanted to share something I’ve been building — NowBlind, a random chat app designed to help people discover ...
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We’ve come across a somewhat frustrating problem on our development machines where the application gets shut down after Oban fails with t...
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Hello
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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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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Hey! Just launched https://buzzbear.ai after quite a bit of time working on it on and off. It monitors Reddit and uses semantic matching ...
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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:
mix hex.repo add...
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I know that Oban supports sqlite and it works very well. But I couldn’t find any mention of sqlite for ObanWeb and ObanPro.
Can somebody...
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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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A new article showcasing some of Oban, and Oban Pro’s, distinct agentic workflow abilities.
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Oban Pro v1.7.0-rc.0 has been released!!:fire_extinguisher::heart_on_fire:
This release enhances workflows with sub-workflows and contex...
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HOTTEST Oban THE LAST THREE YEARS!
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I am still learning my elixir ways, doing my first real elixir project. It is going to process excels or CSV files of user feed...
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I use Oban to make external API requests every N minutes. It’s turned out that the frequnecy I use it with is too dense such that it’ll c...
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Clip from the Elixir Mentor Podcast: https://youtu.be/mKp30PNM_Q4?si=WHjZEzq3DLNUp-VD
Very exciting news! Oban is a fantastic piece of s...
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We are using Oban rate limiting to ensure we don’t overload an external service. The service has a rate limit of no more than 100 request...
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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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Hi! :wave:
This weekend I experienced jobs accumulating in a state available across all queues. We run a two-node setup. One of them was...
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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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Oban.Pro is a collection of extensions, workers, and plugins that expand what Oban is capable of while making complex workflows possible....
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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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@sorentwo I’m running into an issue where I start an iex session (iex -S mix) and then my terminal keeps showing log messages from Oban: ...
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Hey,
I have been using quantum for cron kind of jobs in a project, and when 2 instances of this project were running the jobs were runni...
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situation:
I have a list of posts, each post is associated with many comments,
I want to process each post in an Oban worker where for ...
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Hello,
I am using Oban [Pro] for all of my queues.
I have been hitting a wall on one of my queue functionalities. I have the following ...
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Hello all. Adding oban to a project and wondering why the install guide has the following:
def up do
Oban.Migration.up(version: 11...
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I have recently upgraded Oban from 2.0 → 2.16 - After the upgrade I’m getting an interesting interaction when running my scheduled job. A...
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HOTTEST Oban THIS Over 3 Years!
Many months ago when I originally announced Oban I mentioned that a LiveView powered UI would be available for it soon. Well, the “soon” ...
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Hi,
I have an Elixir application configured to run background scheduled jobs.
One of them runs every couple of minutes and fails every ...
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Let’s say:
I have 1 millions of records in a DB and I want to process them daily via something like Oban.
there’s an Oban job which is ...
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Hello guys, I’ve been checking out Oban for implementing some processing queues for my application. Something I’ve been wondering is that...
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I have an Elixir app that uses Oban to schedule jobs at a time specified by users. For example, users can specify the date and time to se...
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Hi, wondering if anyone has experience creating a lot of queues dynamically with oban, and how that went for you.
I’m writing an app tha...
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Hey Devs,
I have been using Oban — Oban v2.5.0 (hexdocs.pm) in one of my phoenix application. My requirement is like when job fails afte...
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Hello.
I cannot run mix test due to this error.
18:22:11.758 [error] GenServer {Oban.Registry, {Oban, {:plugin, Oban.Plugins.Stager}}} ...
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I am trying to insert another Oban job after one finishes by listening to [:oban, :job, :stop].
I’d like to assert that the next job was...
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I’m developing process automation using oban, but lately I’m facing a problem with updating the code in worker modules.
Whenever I updat...
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I have an Elixir apps which does some harder jobs in the background. I am using Oban to run them asynchrously. For better availability I’...
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I’m tracing down an issue with Oban. I’ve a staging environment which works correctly and a production environment which has issues....
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we are trying to build a system, where a user can add events to a calendar. When the event is due, some specific business logic shou...
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I am trying to wrap my head around the difference between Oban & RabbitMQ i.e. when does it make sense to use Oban vs RabbitMQ?
I kn...
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I want to let the user run customly, statically predefined set of tasks from a web page, as well as view their states, results, possibly ...
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