A `database/sql` escape hatch for broader ecosystem interoperability
Using River's new expanded `riverdatabaseql` driver for compatibility with `database/sql` to share transactions with third party ORMs like Bun and GORM.
Blog
Announcements, engineering posts, and other news from the River team. Available as an Atom feed .
Blake Gentry River Python: Insert in Python, work in Go
Python joins Ruby as River's second officially supported language supporting cross-language insertions. The riverqueue package is available on PyPI, which inserts jobs from a Python program so that they can be worked over in Go.
Announcing River UI
River UI is a self-hosted web interface for River, bringing powerful operational and development tooling to River users. It's freely available as a Docker image, a pre-built static binary, or for bundling into your own application.
Uniqueness with Postgres advisory locks and FNV hashing
How River guarantees job uniquess using transactions and advisory locks. How the FNV hash function gibes well with advisory lock keys and is built into Go.
River 2024: Stability, new APIs, and production readiness
Six months on from River's first release, we wanted to provide a few updates on progress and new features since then.
River 0.4.0: A few breaking changes
River 0.4.0's released, and it contains a few small breaking changes that've been batched together. A list of specific changes, upgrade guide, and a little rationale for why we thought they were justified.
Announcing River: Fast and reliable background jobs for Go
For the past several months, I’ve been working with Brandur to build the Postgres background job library that the Go ecosystem needs: it’s called River, and we’re launching it today in beta.