If you need background jobs or scheduled tasks in your Elixir project, you've probably already heard of Oban. We talk with Parker Selbert, the creator and maintainer of Oban, to learn more about the project and the additional paid features in Oban Web and Oban Pro. Parker explains the origins, why it's architected the way it is, and how the paid extensions work. We also get some insights into companies using Oban and the kind of scale people reach. Spoiler--100's of millions of jobs is a thing.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/163

Elixir Community News

https://elixirforum.com/t/nerves-supports-erlang-otp-26-and-elixir-1-15-now/57344 – Nerves updated to support OTP 26 and Elixir 1.15
https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1686350499967123456 – Phoenix LiveView 0.19 had some enhancements that German Valesco highlights in a video
https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1684418487987441665 – Zigler 0.10.1 was released
https://github.com/E-xyza/zigler/
https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/beam.html – Zigler's BEAM integration docs
https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1685390898329178114 – Private modules in Elixir? Using @moduledoc false
https://elixirforum.com/t/proposal-private-modules-general-discussion/19374 – Previous discussion on private modules
https://dev.to/savonarola/testing-timer-based-logic-in-elixir-with-klotho-library-2c90 – Klotho library may help with timer based testing logic
https://twitter.com/spawnfest/status/1683788630156877825 – SpawnFest will be Oct 28 - 29
https://spawnfest.org/ – SpawnFest is an annual, 48 hour, online software development contest in which teams from around the world get exactly one weekend to create the best BEAM-based app they can.
https://github.com/meanderingstream/dl_foundations_in_elixir/blob/main/ElixirFashionML_Challenge/fashion_mnist_challenge.livemd – There's an ML challenge
https://elixirforum.com/t/elixirfashionmlchallenge-general-discussion-questions/57341 – ML challenge discussion thread

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://getoban.pro/
https://github.com/sorentwo/oban – OSS Oban project
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/29 – Previous interview with Parker from January 2021
https://dscout.com/
https://getoban.pro/oban – Oban Web demo
https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq
https://github.com/sorentwo/kiq
https://github.com/dashbitco/bytepack_archive

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/sorentwo – on Twitter
https://github.com/sorentwo – on Github
https://sorentwo.com/ – Blog

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163: Job Queues using Oban with Parker Selbert

Thinking Elixir Podcast

163: Job Queues using Oban with Parker Selbert