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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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I am using Oban and occasionally, shortly after a deployment, a handful of jobs can fail because of dependency on other parts of the syst...
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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,
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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We recently started running Oban with Oban Web on PostgreSQL (AWS RDS gp3) and noticed our oban_jobs buffer cache hit ratio sitting at 65...
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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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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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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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Here’s an example workflow that has a container sub-workflow that fans out multiple sub-workflows each of which contains a cascade functi...
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Hi there, I would like to know your thoughts about how to use Oban workers in a Phoenix app with Scopes.
When using scopes the context f...
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@sorentwo or anyone really I may need some help with Oban.
My set up:
oban 2.19.4
oban_pro 1.6.2
oban_web 2.11.1
Since couple of day...
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Yesterday I was able to deploy my app successfully.
Today my deploys are breaking with:
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4.343 Failed to fetch record for oban/oban_p...
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Hi everyone,
I have been working on a large-scale, open-source platform for orchestrating and governing AI workloads on the BEAM (curren...
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Hello everyone, Im getting this error when configuring Oban on my phoenix App, Pls I need your expertise on this
Im using Oban 2.19
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I’ve got some jobs that are “stuck”. Eg, one is scheduled 20 hours ago and is in available on attempt 0 of 15. It’s part of a workflow an...
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I have an Oban Workflow that I want to limit so that only 1 Workflow will run for a user at a time, but not block for other users.
From ...
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I recently upgraded Oban and Oban Pro to the latest version, 2.19.2 and 1.5.2 respectively.
I’ve faced a situation related to the unique...
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Soon after updating our Oban mix spec to 2.21, an error report came in about a unexpected return from a Multi transaction involving an Ob...
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HOTTEST IN Oban Questions/Help 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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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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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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@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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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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I have a daily quota from an API that I’m calling in Oban jobs. When I get an error response because of the quota exceeded, I want to pos...
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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 a dilema that I would like to hear your input on:
We have a server that serves a decently high rate of api calls and needs to sta...
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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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We have jobs with the following requirements:
Jobs need to be retried exactly once every 24h or slightly less, with no exceptions – I a...
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Hello,
I want to ignore Oban-related traces in Ecto OpenTelemetry which comes in two flavours:
queries against oban_* tables
interacti...
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HOTTEST IN Oban Questions/Help THIS Over 3 Years!
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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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Hi,
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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This is probably my misunderstanding rather than an Ecto or Oban issue, but I’ve only seen this error since I deployed a toy app using Ob...
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