# BullMQ

7 Hacker News commenters recommended BullMQ and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a solid, well-liked Redis-backed job queue for background work, including one-off jobs, and some moved their work queues off Postgres to it.

## Why people recommend it

- Solid and well liked (3 comments): "The Playwright + BullMQ stack is solid for this." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048231)) "BullMQ, which is pretty solid and well liked" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820742)) "switched to Redis+BullMQ and have never looked back ever since" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614277))
- Moved work queues off Postgres (2 comments): "switched to Redis+BullMQ and have never looked back ever since" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614277)) "We are very glad we migrated off of PG for our work queues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46615861))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Oban](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oban.md): 39 recommend
- [Celery](https://hackerapproved.com/p/celery.md): 33 recommend
- [Solid Queue](https://hackerapproved.com/p/solidqueue.md): 22 recommend
- [Sidekiq](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sidekiq.md): 14 recommend
- [Django background tasks](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django-background-tasks.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "BullMQ", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bullmq/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).