Hi HN! I built bunqueue because I got tired of spinning up Redis just for background jobs.

The idea: for single-server deployments, SQLite can handle 100k+ ops/sec with WAL mode, so why add infrastructure?

  Two modes:                                                                                        
  
  - Embedded: everything in-process, just `import` and go                                           
  - Server: run `bunqueue start`, connect multiple workers via TCP                                  
                                                                                                    

Features: priorities, delays, retries, cron jobs, DLQ, job dependencies, BullMQ-compatible API.

  Trade-offs vs Redis:                                                                              
 
  - Not for multi-region distributed systems                                                        
  - Best for single server or small clusters                                                        
                                                                                                    
 Happy to answer any questions about the architecture!