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Join us for a live-coding session where we’ll talk about the new features of JobRunr v8. Learn how to use carbon-aware job scheduling, use workflow orchestration and more to build highly efficient and scalable Java applications.

Ever found yourself wondering whether you need a message queue or a job scheduler? It’s a common crossroads for developers. This post explains the difference.

Not all background tasks are created equal. Discover strategies to ensure your most critical jobs always run first, even under heavy load.

We’ve all been there. Your web application needs to do something time-consuming; send an email, process an uploaded file, generate a report,.. but making the user wait is simply not an option.

New release brings Quarkus 3.20 and Micronaut 4.8 support, smarter config validation, and CockroachDB integration!

At JobRunr, we believe building great software shouldn’t come at the cost of the planet. Here’s how we’re using our profits, and platform to leave the world better than we found it.

Explore how JobRunr Pro metrics API can dynamically scale your Java workloads on Kubernetes to optimize cost and performance.

Easily schedule your (batch) jobs in Java and monitor them using JobRunr, a unified programming model to handle background tasks in a reliable way.

Learn how to build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows using JobRunr in Java.

Understanding the critical role of idempotence in ensuring reliable and fault-tolerant background job scheduling in modern distributed systems.

New release packed with enhancements, compatibility updates, and bug fixes!

Quartz is often considered the standard job scheduling library in Java, which can lead developers to overlook more modern alternatives.

New release packed with new enhancements and bug fixes!

Rethinking Microservices with Modular Monoliths

Check out the introduction to JobRunr on Spring Builders

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v7 release webinar online

We’re proud to announce the latest release, JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v7.0.0

The great Josh Long created an awesome introductionary video to JobRunr

A Leap Towards Sustainable Computing

We’re proud to announce the first release candidate of JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v7.0.0

Buy JobRunr Pro and plant trees!

🎉 I’ll be talking about JobRunr at Devoxx 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium 🎉

Stability improvements, Dashboard improvements, Micronaut 4 support, Kotlin 1.9 support and Job Timeouts!

Part of the JobRunr revenue goes to #TeamTrees!

Stay calm and press the Panic Button…

Do you have questions about JobRunr? Are you struggling with a problem related to JobRunr? Then join a live coding session where I’ll try to answer all your questions!

Performance improvements, Quarkus 3 support, an important bugfix and dynamic queues in JobRunr Pro!

Discover the power of Java batch processing with JobRunr — a modern, user-friendly solution for distributed job management.

Discover how JobRunr helps manage high-demand tasks like pay-check calculations, retail promotions, and email campaigns by distributing load across multiple servers in any environment.

A Testament to Its Power and Flexibility

An important bugfix and Job Filters improved a lot!

An in-depth guide on how to switch from Quartz Scheduler to JobRunr

New API, Job labels and a bunch of dashboard improvements!

Did you already know that JobRunr is featured on Thoughtworks technology radar?

A crime scene investigation on what went wrong with JobRunr when Daylight Saving Time ended.

Let’s dig deeper on the impact of Daylight Saving Time and scheduled JobRunr Jobs

Support for Spring Boot 3.0.0 and Kotlin 1.7.20

An important bugfix and some performance improvements

An intro to JobRunr by Alex Gutjahr

Did you miss Spring.io? Watch the JobRunr talk I gave at Spring.io Barcelona!

Jeeeejj! I have a 1000 stars in GitHub!

As JobRunr and its community is growing, it’s time to do some governance.

Thanks to the JobRunr Pro Dashboard!

Kotlin 1.6.20 support and important bugfixes

I’m happy to share that I can present JobRunr at Spring.io in Barcelona!

New features and improvements to make your job scheduling life even easier!

Need to run a CRON Job in Java? Try out JobRunr for all your recurring java CRON jobs!

The biggest release since JobRunr v1.0.0

I’ve sold my second license and that resulted in trees being planted!

JobRunr Pro Dashboard with Job Filtering - the backoffice to your code

SQL Schema support and now also ready for Kotlin 1.5

Clean code - clean dashboard!

Release v3.0.1 until v3.1.2 - small bugfixes!

Release v3.0.0 - now supporting JHipster!

Release v2.0.0 - now ready for Kotlin

Release v1.3.0 - aka Made in Germany

I’ve sold my first license and that resulted in trees being planted!

Again support for a new datastore - this time for Amazon DocumentDB!

New improvements for Spring and notifications for jobs that don’t exist anymore

We’re there, JobRunr v1.0.0 is released!

ElasticSearch support, Redis and MongoDB improvements and almost at 1.0

Is it worthwhile to start a freemium product for developers in the Java eco-system?

Redis and MongoDB improvements, ElasticSearch support and almost at 1.0

After integrating the Virtual Threads of Project Loom, it’s time for a showdown between Java 11, Java 16 without Virtual Threads and Java 16 with Virtual Threads.

Run your background jobs at warp speed thanks to GraalVM native mode.

We make sure JobRunr will run on all future JVM’s to come

JobRunr now supports MicroProfile and Quarkus using Json-B

A 10 to 15% performance increase and live updates in the dashboard

A hands-on tutorial on how JobRunr is tested against 12 different JVM’s using TestContainers.

An overview of the new features in these incremental releases

Learn how to scale JobRunr to have a whopping 869% speed increase

A tutorial on how to use JobRunr, Spring Data JPA and Docx-Stamper to generate the salary slips for all employees of Acme Corp

Time for a new release and we have some great new treats for you! A lot of time was spend improving the dashboard and we also have Redis support.

The birth of JobRunr - easy process long-running jobs!