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Faultline – distributed job queue with exactly-once execution guarantees (github.com)
HN 1 pts 1 comments by kritibehl 1d ago Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Show HN: Crash-safe job queue – lease-expiry race and fencing fix (github.com)
HN 1 pts 1 comments by kritibehl Feb 23, 2026 thread
Most lease-based job queues look correct until you test them adversarially.<p>I built Faultline, a PostgreSQL-backed distributed job execution engine using:<p>- Lease-based claims - Retry scheduling - Idempotent side effects via a ledger table - A deterministic race reproduction harness<p>The intere...