🔗 Elixir background jobs: choosing the right tool for the job

With its vast ecosystem, Elixir offers multiple solutions for running things in the background. To a newcomer or even an experienced developer, the variety of options might seem daunting. Some tools that used to be popular have fallen into the maintenance limbo, while others have emerged as default choices.

This article maps out the Elixir background jobs landscape for you, exploring solutions from the built-in Task module to Redis-backed libraries, such as Exq, and explaining how database-backed systems dominated the ecosystem. Hopefully, this will help you choose the right tool for your project.