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Faktory

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

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.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Contributed Systems LLC1
Maintained by
Company1
First release
20174

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on6
Install with
linux rpm and deb packages57

Releases

Current major version
110
Last release
2026-08-1010

Adoption

GitHub stars
6,1552
Contributors
492

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-11-03: links, Maintainer, Maintained by
    contribsys.com/faktory/
  2. 2026-11-03: links, Categories, Written in, GitHub stars, Contributors
    github.com/contribsys/faktory
  3. 2026-11-03: links, Admin interface
    github.com/contribsys/faktory/blob/main/README.md
  4. 2026-11-03: First release
    www.mikeperham.com/2017/10/24/introducing-faktory/
  5. 2026-11-03: Runtime, Install with
    github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Installation
  6. 2026-11-03: Runs as
    github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Deployment
  7. 2026-11-03: Install with
    github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Kubernetes-Deployment-Example
  8. 2026-11-03: License
    github.com/contribsys/faktory/blob/main/LICENSE
  9. 2026-11-03: License
    github.com/contribsys/faktory/wiki/Licensing
  10. 2026-11-03: Current major version, Last release
    github.com/contribsys/faktory/releases/tag/v1.10.0

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