# Faktory

Language-agnostic, persistent background job server with a web UI, from which workers in any language fetch jobs.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/faktory/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://contribsys.com/faktory/
- repository: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
- docs: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki
- pricing: https://contribsys.com/faktory/
- forum: https://www.rubyforum.org/tag/faktory

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Contributed Systems LLC
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2017
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: backend
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: linux rpm and deb packages

### License

- licenseModel: open-core
- license: AGPL-3.0, Commercial (Faktory Enterprise)

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-08-10

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 6155
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 49
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://contribsys.com/faktory/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://contribsys.com/faktory/ (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://contribsys.com/faktory/ (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://www.mikeperham.com/2017/10/24/introducing-faktory/ (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Deployment (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Kubernetes-Deployment-Example (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Licensing (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://contribsys.com/faktory/ (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/releases/tag/v1.10.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory/releases/tag/v1.10.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

Faktory is a language-agnostic background job server with a web UI. Workers in any language fetch jobs from it, and the web UI shows and manages them. The server runs as a single process on a host and starts Redis as a child process to hold its data. The wiki documents installs from Linux RPM and DEB packages, Homebrew, a Docker image, AWS ECS, Render.com, Kubernetes and a source build.

## Worth knowing

The server is licensed under the AGPL-3.0. The Faktory client and worker libraries are not covered by that license, according to the license text. Faktory Enterprise is a commercial edition that the project describes as offering more features and official support, and it adds a remote Redis option.

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