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JobRunr v8.3 ❤️ Spring Boot

We’re proud to announce support for Spring Boot 4 and Jackson 3

Why We Ran the Numbers: Benchmarking JobRunr vs. Quartz on Postgres

We benchmarked JobRunr Pro against Quartz on Postgres. The results are in: JobRunr is 18 times faster, processing 500,000 jobs with a fraction of the database load.

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v8.2.1

Spring Batch vs. JobRunr: Choosing the Right Tool for Your Java Background Jobs

We compare Spring Batch and JobRunr to help you decide whether you need industrial-strength data processing or modern, simple task execution.

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v8.1.0

Async Jobs for Quarkus & Micronaut, Embedded Dashboards, bugfixes, and JDK 25 Support.

Building a Semantic Search Engine: A Blueprint for Vector Search using Oracle Database, JobRunr, and Spring

Step-by-step guide to building a semantic search engine using Oracle Database’s AI Vector Search, JobRunr for background jobs, and Spring Boot.

JobRunr and JobRunr Pro v8.0.0!

We’re proud to announce the latest release, JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v8.0.0

What’s the Difference Between Message Queues and Job Schedulers?

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.

How To Prioritze Background Jobs?

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

Mastering Java Background Jobs: Threads, Pools, Virtual Threads, and JobRunr

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.

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v7.5.0

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

How JobRunr Builds Software That Gives Back to the Planet

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.

Optimizing Cost and Performance on Kubernetes: Scale Java Workloads with JobRunr Metrics

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

JobRunr - the best Java Scheduler?

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

Building local LLM systems: RAG implementation with JobRunr and Spring AI

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

Why is Idempotence Important in Java Job Scheduling?

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

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v7.4.0

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

Task schedulers in Java: modern alternatives to Quartz Scheduler

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

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v7.3.0

New release packed with new enhancements and bug fixes!

Do you really need Microservices?

Rethinking Microservices with Modular Monoliths

We are on Spring Builders!

Check out the introduction to JobRunr on Spring Builders

Watch JobRunr v7 Release Day Webinar

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v7 release webinar online

JobRunr and JobRunr Pro v7.0.0!

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

JobRunr featured in Spring Tips!

The great Josh Long created an awesome introductionary video to JobRunr

Introducing Carbon-Aware Jobs in JobRunr

A Leap Towards Sustainable Computing

Time for JobRunr v7.0.0!

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

More than 15.000 trees 🌳 planted!

Buy JobRunr Pro and plant trees!

JobRunr at Devoxx 2023

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

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v6.3.0

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

More than 3500 trees 🌳 planted!

Part of the JobRunr revenue goes to #TeamTrees!

JobRunr Pro Panic Button

Stay calm and press the Panic Button…

Meet the Geek!

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!

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v6.2.0

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

Java batch processing with JobRunr

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

Taming the Bursts: Efficient Cloud-Native Processing with JobRunr

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.

JobRunr Has Processed more than 10 Billion Jobs Successfully in Less Than a Year

A Testament to Its Power and Flexibility

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v6.1.0

An important bugfix and Job Filters improved a lot!

How to move from Quartz to JobRunr

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

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v6.0.0

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

JobRunr in the media

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

Oooh, the irony

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

JobRunr and Daylight Saving Time

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

JobRunr v5.3.0

Support for Spring Boot 3.0.0 and Kotlin 1.7.20

JobRunr v5.2.0

An important bugfix and some performance improvements

JobRunr Intro Video

An intro to JobRunr by Alex Gutjahr

JobRunr at Spring.io!

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

Launching a developer product - part 2

Jeeeejj! I have a 1000 stars in GitHub!

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro contributor license agreement

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro contributor license agreement

JobRunr Pro increases developer productivity

JobRunr Pro increases developer productivity as developers are less interrupted by first line support.

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v5.1.0

Kotlin 1.6.20 support and important bugfixes

Spring.io Barcelona!

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

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v5.0.0

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

Java Cron Jobs

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

JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v4.0.0

The biggest release since JobRunr v1.0.0

Trees planted!

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

JobRunr Pro v3.4.0

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

JobRunr v3.2.0 & JobRunr Pro Release v3.3.0

SQL Schema support and now also ready for Kotlin 1.5

JobRunr Pro Release v3.2.0

Clean code - clean dashboard!

Release v3.1.2

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

Release v3.0.0

Release v3.0.0 - now supporting JHipster!

v2.0.0 - Kotlin support!

Release v2.0.0 - now ready for Kotlin

v1.3.0 - Small improvements

Release v1.3.0 - aka Made in Germany

Trees planted!

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

v1.2.0 - Amazon DocumentDB

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

v1.1.0 - Notifications

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

Finally, v1.0.0

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

v0.9.16 & 0.9.17 - ElasticSearch support

ElasticSearch support, Redis and MongoDB improvements and almost at 1.0

Launching a developer product - how hard is it?

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

v0.9.16 & 0.9.17 - ElasticSearch support

Redis and MongoDB improvements, ElasticSearch support and almost at 1.0

JobRunr, Project Loom and Virtual Threads

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.

v0.9.12 & 0.9.13 - DB2 and GraalVM native

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

JobRunr is joining the OpenJDK Quality Outreach program

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

v0.9.10 & v0.9.11 - Quarkus & MicroProfile support

JobRunr now supports MicroProfile and Quarkus using Json-B

v0.9.9 - Usability and performance improvements

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

Testing JobRunr against 12 different JVM’s

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

v0.9.7 & v0.9.8 - Bugfixes, extra databases and JMX integration

An overview of the new features in these incremental releases

JobRunr ♥ Kubernetes ♥ Terraform

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

Easily process long-running jobs with JobRunr

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

v0.9.0 - Dashboard improvements and Redis support!

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.

Java batch processing made easy…

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