Oban Articles
Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
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Monitoring the Health of Oban Applications
Catch stalled queues, growing backlogs, and runaway jobs before your users do, with health checks, metrics, and execution timeouts.
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Oban Comes to Python
Introducing fully operational, PostgreSQL-backed, fully async implementations of Oban and Oban Pro for Python.
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Unlocking Agentic Workflows with Oban Pro
Reliable agentic workflows in Oban Pro: cascading jobs, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, dynamic grafting, and transactional guarantees.
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Weaving Stories with Cascading Workflows
Using cascading workflows with context sharing pipelines to generate a collection of illustrated children's stories.
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OSS Oban Web and Oban v2.19
From open sourcing Oban Web, to releasing Oban with MySQL support, Web v2.11, and plan simplifications
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The Oban Pros—Our Story on the Changelog Podcast
We joined The Changelog to discuss the legacy of Oban Pro, Elixir as a mature niche, and the beauty of mom-and-pop lifestyle businesses.
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Enhancing Oban Job Error Reporting
Tips and techniques to make Oban job errors easier to identify, differentiate, and diagnose in monitoring systems like Sentry
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Optimizing Connections and Bloat with Oban Pro
Survey the recent additions to Oban Pro that drastically reduce transactions, pool contention, database bloat, and overall system load for high throughput systems
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Oban Starts Where Tasks End
Why Elixir's Task module isn't enough for critical background work, and how Oban provides the persistence, retries, scheduling, and distribution you need.
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One Million Jobs a Minute with Oban
Explore Oban's performance boundaries and system load through a journey to processing millions of jobs a minute.
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Using Oban to License Oban
A behind-the-scenes look at how we use Oban to run the live dashboard demo, process payments, manage licenses, and handle webhooks reliably.
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Composing Jobs with Oban Pro
A breakdown of Oban Pro's specialized workers including Batch for parallel execution, Chunk for grouped processing, and Workflow for multi-step job pipelines.
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Self Hosting Oban Packages
How we built a self-hosted hex repo for Oban Web and Oban Pro using hex_core and a global CDN, with instructions for updating your config.