v4.0, background jobs that don't page you

Ship the queue,
not the fire.

Ratchet runs your background jobs with retries, backpressure and a dead-letter you can actually read. Drop in one line, delete your cron hacks.

ratchet.ts
// one line, no broker to run
import { queue } from "ratchet"

await queue.push("resize", { id })
// retried 5x, backoff, dead-letter
✓ 1,204 jobs / min · p99 42ms
12ms median enqueue
5× retry with backoff
0 brokers to run
99.98% delivered

Everything a queue needs. Nothing it doesn't.

No dashboard you have to learn. No cluster to babysit. It reads your code and does the boring part.

Dead-letter

Failures you can read, not grep.

Every dead job keeps its payload, its stack, and the five attempts that led there. Replay one, or replay the whole batch, from the same screen.

dead-letter
3 failed · resize#8821
attempt 5/5 · timeout
▶ replay   ✕ drop
Backpressure

It slows down before you fall over.

Concurrency caps per queue, per tenant. When the downstream chokes, Ratchet holds the line instead of hammering it.

Schedules

Cron, without the crontab.

Every-minute to every-quarter, defined in code, versioned with your repo.

Observability

Numbers that mean something.

Throughput, p50/p99, retry rate per queue, streamed to your existing stack.

Priced per job, not per seat.

Your whole team, one bill. Pay for what runs.

Hobby $0
  • 10k jobs / month
  • 3 queues
  • 7-day history
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Team · most picked $40
  • 2M jobs / month
  • unlimited queues
  • 90-day history
  • dead-letter replay
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  • SSO + audit log
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