Oban Articles

Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.

Introducing fully operational, PostgreSQL-backed, fully async implementations of Oban and Oban Pro for Python.

Reliable agentic workflows in Oban Pro: cascading jobs, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, dynamic grafting, and transactional guarantees.

Using cascading workflows with context sharing pipelines to generate a collection of illustrated children's stories.

The Pro v1.6 release candidate adds sub-workflows, overhauled partitioning, global burst mode, and much more.

From open sourcing Oban Web, to releasing Oban with MySQL support, Web v2.11, and plan simplifications

The last day of Oban Pro v1.5 launch week, putting it all together with hybrid compositions and announcing the release candidate.

The fourth day of Oban Pro v1.5 launch week, covering overhauled batches and improved workflows.

The third day of Oban Pro v1.5 launch week, dedicated to the @job function decorator which converts any function into a background job.

The second day of Pro v1.5 launch week, covering enhanced uniqueness and distributed PostgreSQL.

The first day of Oban Pro v1.5 launch week, covering unified migrations, worker aliases, and radically improved chaining.

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.

Tips and techniques to make Oban job errors easier to identify, differentiate, and diagnose in monitoring systems like Sentry

Survey the recent additions to Oban Pro that drastically reduce transactions, pool contention, database bloat, and overall system load for high throughput systems

Details and demos of the features in Oban Web v2.10, including realtime charts, filtering with auto-complete, and distributed metrics.

Details about the features in Oban Pro's v0.14 release including horizontal auto-scaling, a schema for structured args, partitioning chunks, and faster batching.

Why Elixir's Task module isn't enough for critical background work, and how Oban provides the persistence, retries, scheduling, and distribution you need.

Explore Oban's performance boundaries and system load through a journey to processing millions of jobs a minute.

Oban v2.11 introduces centralized leadership and a PG notifier for reduced resource usage, plus new features in Pro v0.10 and Web v2.9.

A behind-the-scenes look at how we use Oban to run the live dashboard demo, process payments, manage licenses, and handle webhooks reliably.

A breakdown of Oban Pro's specialized workers including Batch for parallel execution, Chunk for grouped processing, and Workflow for multi-step job pipelines.

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.