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Async vs runit

A side-by-side look at Async and runit. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Async

Async

Development

Async is an open source asynchronous task queue / job queue based on Redis, developed in Python. It allows you to run tasks asynchronously outside of the request/response cycle.

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runit

runit

System & Hardware

runit is a service supervision suite used to control processes and services on Unix-like operating systems. It is lightweight, customizable, and follows a simple yet robust process supervision scheme.

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