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Message-queue projects on GitHub

Message queue systems that decouple services through asynchronous communication.

As of , the most-starred Message-queue projects on GitHub are advanced-java (79.2K stars), redis (76.9K stars) and architect-awesome (60.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 26 Message-queue repositories with 558K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was celld, with +68 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+68

celld

denoland/celld · ★ 5.8K

celld is an open-source daemon that lets you self-host a Cloudflare Workers application (Workers, Durable Objects, KV, Queues, D1, R2, Workflows, Cron Triggers, static assets) on your own machines instead of on Cloudflare's network, deployed straight from your existing wrangler.json.

+22

redis

redis/redis · ★ 76.9K

Redis is an in-memory server used as a cache, data structure store, and document/vector query engine for building real-time, data-driven applications.

+6

nats-server

nats-io/nats-server · ★ 20.9K

This is the NATS server — the high-performance core of NATS.io, a messaging system for connecting digital systems, services and devices. It's a CNCF project.

+5

emqx

emqx/emqx · ★ 16.8K

EMQX is an MQTT broker and messaging platform for IoT: it connects millions of devices, routes messages in real time, and bridges them into backend data systems. Aimed at AI, IoT, IIoT, connected vehicles and smart cities.

The all-time top

26 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · doocs/advanced-java

    advanced-java

    A free, community-curated collection of in-depth Java backend interview questions and answers, covering message queues, search engines, caching, sharding, distributed systems, high availability, microservices, and big-data processing.

    79.2K
  2. #2 · redis/redis

    redis

    Redis is an in-memory server used as a cache, data structure store, and document/vector query engine for building real-time, data-driven applications.

    76.9K
  3. #3 · xingshaocheng/architect-awesome

    architect-awesome

    A curated technical roadmap in Chinese for backend engineers aiming to become architects, mapping out data structures, algorithms, concurrency, databases, middleware, and system design.

    60.8K
  1. 4

    spring-boot-examples

    30.5Kityouknow/spring-boot-examples · Java

    A collection of small, standalone Spring Boot 3.0 example projects covering common integrations like web, WebFlux, JPA, MyBatis, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Redis, mail, file upload, and Docker.

  2. 5

    spring-cloud-alibaba

    29.2Kalibaba/spring-cloud-alibaba · Java

    A Spring Cloud toolkit from Alibaba: a one-stop set of components for building distributed Java applications on Alibaba middleware such as Nacos, Sentinel, RocketMQ and Seata.

  3. 6

    celery

    29Kcelery/celery · Python

    Celery is a distributed task queue for Python: clients put units of work (tasks) on a queue and dedicated worker processes monitor the queue and run them — across threads, machines, even datacenters.

  4. 7

    nsq

    25.8Knsqio/nsq · Go

    NSQ is a realtime distributed messaging platform — a message queue built to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day.

  5. 8

    source-code-hunter

    23.1Kdoocs/source-code-hunter · Java

    This is a curated collection of deep-dive articles that explain, from the source code itself, how popular Java frameworks and middleware actually work under the hood - including the Spring family, MyBatis, Netty, Dubbo, Redis, Tomcat, Nacos, Sentinel and RocketMQ, plus a bonus section on core JDK classes and concurrency utilities.

  6. 9

    rocketmq

    22.6Kapache/rocketmq · Java

    Apache RocketMQ is an open-source distributed messaging and streaming platform for building event-driven applications, with low latency, trillion-level capacity and flexible scalability.

  7. 10

    nats-server

    20.9Knats-io/nats-server · Go

    This is the NATS server — the high-performance core of NATS.io, a messaging system for connecting digital systems, services and devices. It's a CNCF project.

  8. 11

    SpringBoot-Labs

    20.1Kyudaocode/SpringBoot-Labs · Java

    A large Java learning repository packed with hands-on example modules covering six Spring-related technology stacks: Spring Boot 2.X, Spring Cloud, Spring Cloud Alibaba, Dubbo, distributed message queues, and distributed transactions.

  9. 12

    iii

    18.8Kiii-hq/iii · Rust

    iii is a real-time engine for your backend stack: queues, cron, HTTP, state, observability, agents, and sandboxes are collapsed into one live system surface where every service is composable and observable.

  10. 13

    mars

    17.7KTencent/mars · C++

    Mars is a cross-platform network component library built by WeChat's mobile team — the same infrastructure proven by billions of WeChat users. It bundles mobile-optimized networking, logging and network diagnostics for embedding in your own app.

  11. 14

    emqx

    16.8Kemqx/emqx · Erlang

    EMQX is an MQTT broker and messaging platform for IoT: it connects millions of devices, routes messages in real time, and bridges them into backend data systems. Aimed at AI, IoT, IIoT, connected vehicles and smart cities.

  12. 15

    bull

    16.3KOptimalBits/bull · JavaScript

    Bull is a Redis-based queue package for Node.js for handling distributed jobs and messages — background tasks, scheduled work and message passing, written for rock solid stability and atomicity.

  13. 16

    redpanda

    12.6Kredpanda-data/redpanda · C++

    Redpanda is a streaming data platform that is wire-compatible with the Apache Kafka API but is built from the ground up in C++ to be lighter, faster, and simpler to operate.

  14. 17

    sarama

    12.5KIBM/sarama · Go

    Sarama is a Go client library for Apache Kafka, letting Go applications produce and consume Kafka messages.

  15. 18

    encore

    12.5Kencoredev/encore · Go

    Encore is an open-source backend platform: you declare resources like databases, Pub/Sub and caches directly in code, run the whole system locally with real infrastructure, and deploy into your own AWS or GCP account.

  16. 19

    QUANTAXIS

    11.3Kyutiansut/QUANTAXIS · Python

    QUANTAXIS is a local-first quantitative trading framework for China's stock, futures and options markets, covering data fetching, backtesting, paper trading, live trading, visualization and multi-account management, with support for distributed task scheduling.

  17. 20

    rq

    10.7Krq/rq · Python

    RQ (Redis Queue) is a simple Python library for putting jobs on a queue and processing them in the background with worker processes, backed by Redis or Valkey.

  18. 21

    celld

    5.8Kdenoland/celld · Rust

    celld is an open-source daemon that lets you self-host a Cloudflare Workers application (Workers, Durable Objects, KV, Queues, D1, R2, Workflows, Cron Triggers, static assets) on your own machines instead of on Cloudflare's network, deployed straight from your existing wrangler.json.

  19. 22

    The-Accidental-CTO

    3.9Ksubhashchy/The-Accidental-CTO · TypeScript

    This is 'The Accidental CTO', a story-driven system design handbook by Subhash Choudhary about scaling the Dukaan e-commerce platform from zero to over a million stores without a formal CS degree.

  20. 23

    kafgres

    417RayElg/kafgres · Rust

    kafgres is a PostgreSQL extension that embeds a full Kafka broker inside Postgres: unmodified Kafka clients connect on port 9092 and Postgres stores all topics, partitions, offsets, and the log itself, giving transactional coupling between the database and the event stream.

  21. 24

    picomq

    373PicoMQ/picomq · Rust

    PicoMQ is a durable, real-time streaming system that stores its data on S3-compatible object storage instead of local disks, while speaking both a native HTTP protocol and the Kafka wire protocol.

  22. 25

    effect-mq

    188TeamWarp/effect-mq · TypeScript

    effect-mq is an Effect-native background job and message queue library: schema-first job definitions, a storage-agnostic queue core, a worker runtime, and stores for Postgres (via Drizzle) and Redis.

  23. 26

    OKPing-Network-Monitor

    150okpingnet/OKPing-Network-Monitor · Java

    OKPing is an open-source, multi-node network quality monitoring and speed-testing platform: you deploy probe agents in different regions and networks, then test sites, APIs and servers from each node.

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