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An easy way to perform background #job #processing in #java. Distributed and backed by persistent storage. Open-source and free for commercial use.
Science meets Java? Count us in. ⚛️

We’re geeked to share: our founder Ronald Dehuysser will speak at Voxxed Days CERN on Feb 10, 2026.the home of the LHC!

Bucket-list moment to talk distributed job scheduling. See you there? #java #oss #CERN #VoxxedDays
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Legacy tax in Financial systems is real.

Balraj Adhana showed banks can modernize without risk:
Spring Boot + JobRunr -> 40% infra cost drop, 70% fewer manual reports, zero data loss. Automate EOM reporting & trade submits.

Read his story: www.freepressjournal.in/latest-news/...

#Java #OSS
Re-Architecting Finance: Why Core Modernization Is The Key To Surviving The Next Wave Of Disruption
One of his biggest achievements was the modernization of a market surveillance and compliance platform at a leading financial exchange. The old system was monolithic, slow to update, and costly to…
www.freepressjournal.in
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚀 JobRunr v8.2.1 is here!

New Rate Limiter Dashboard for Pro 📊 + auto cleanup of old/orphaned limiters.
Security hardening: CORS blocked by default.
Updates: Kotlin 2.2.20, Quarkus 2.27.
More fixes, more visibility.

Details: www.jobrunr.io/en/blog/jobr...
#java #oss #kotlin #quarkus
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
At J-Fall today? Catch founder Ronald Dehuysser on Green AI: how JobRunr schedules AI training/inference when power is greener and cheaper, orchestrates local workloads with Ollama in your Java stack—cut CO2 and costs. Room 8, Thu 17:25–17:40. #Java #GreenAI #OSS #Ollama
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🔍 API call triggers a job. That job calls another service. Where did it fail?

You lose the trace at the queue. Your job becomes a black box.

Our new Pro guide shows how to fix this.

Read the guide: www.jobrunr.io/en/guides/ad...

#Java #Observability #OpenTelemetry #Tracing
Observability: Tracing JobRunr Jobs
Follow this guide to enable and configure distributed tracing for JobRunr Pro jobs using your observability platform of choice.
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November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The JobRunr dashboard is great for standard metrics and failed jobs.

But what if you want to go deeper? 📊

Our new guide shows how to feed job counts, server stats, and Pro job timings right into Prometheus or CloudWatch.

www.jobrunr.io/en/guides/ad...

#Java #Observability #Monitoring
Observability: Enabling JobRunr Metrics
Follow this guide to expose and integrate different JobRunr-specific metrics into your observability platform.
www.jobrunr.io
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Rafael Ponte called JobRunr "probably the best distributed job scheduled library for java" during his talk at JavaZone.

Thank you for the mention Rafael. His full talk on Messaging With PostgreSQL is a must-watch for any Java dev. We will link it in the comments.

#Java #JobRunr #JavaZone #OSS
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Tired of background job config bloat?

Heavyweight framework for complex ETL, or lightweight library for everyday async tasks? Which one are you choosing? 🤔

We wrote a full comparison:
jobrunr.io/en/blog/spri...

#Java #SpringBoot #JobRunr #SpringBatch #BackgroundJobs #OSS
October 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
JobRunr v8.1.0 is out.

Key updates:
• @AsyncJob annotation now supports Quarkus & Micronaut.
• The Pro dashboard can now be embedded in Quarkus & Micronaut apps.
• Official JDK 25 support.

Code examples and release notes:
www.jobrunr.io/en/blog/jobr...

#Java #Quarkus #Micronaut #OpenSource
JobRunr & JobRunr Pro v8.1.0
Async Jobs for Quarkus & Micronaut, Embedded Dashboards, bugfixes, and JDK 25 Support.
www.jobrunr.io
September 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Developers, where do you find your news?

We want to post JobRunr updates where you'll actually see them.

Drop your favorite sources (Bluesky, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Github,...) in a reply 👇

#Java #Opensource
September 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🎉 Congrats to the Java team on shipping JDK 25!

We're happy to say: JobRunr is JDK 25 ready

Massive thanks to everyone who made this release happen.
Your work powers projects all over the world, including ours.

Got a favorite JEP? Want to see one show up in JobRunr?

#Java25 #JDK25 #OSS
September 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🚀 Build a semantic search engine with

- Oracle Vector Search
- Spring Boot
- JobRunr background jobs

Offload AI workloads without slowing your app. Fast, async, and observable.

👉 www.jobrunr.io/en/blog/sema...

#java #llm #springboot
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.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Not every job needs a forklift
Not every task is ETL

💡 Fincarna chose JobRunr Pro for real-time speed and control – not chunked pipelines

Because job processing isn’t the product
👉 www.jobrunr.io/en/use-case/...

#java #oss #ETL
Why JobRunr Pro Makes Sense When Your Jobs Aren't Just ETL Theater
At Fincarna, a modern monetization platform for banks, we learned that not all background jobs are the same. This article explains why we chose JobRunr Pro to handle our diverse job processing needs,…
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August 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
JobRunr just got featured on @infoq.com

The article talks about what’s new in JobRunr v8, and also a includes a interview with our founder @rdehuyss.bsky.social

Read the article here: www.infoq.com/news/2025/08...

#java #oss #infoq #greensoftware
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August 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🚀 120+ developer questions. One helpful chatbot.

This week, we collected the most-asked questions about JobRunr, and turned them into short, visual explainers.

#Java #SpringBoot #JobScheduling #JobRunr
August 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🌿 Want to run your Java job greener?

Just give it some margin.

With JobRunr, you can define a time window - like 2PM to 8PM - and it’ll pick the lowest carbon hour within that range.

Simple code, real impact.

#Java #CarbonAware #JobRunr
July 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🧠 Got a JobRunr question?

Skip the docs, skip the scroll, just ask our new DocsGPT chatbot.

Trained on everything we’ve written, guides, docs, examples. it’s the fastest way to get unstuck with JobRunr.

It’s live at the bottom of every page in our docs.

#java #oss #docs #chatbot
July 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🌱 See when your Java job runs greenest

JobRunr now shows:

– Pending state while it picks the best low-carbon time
– Exact time selected (like 2PM 🇧🇪 in example below)
– 📊 A graph of the carbon intensity forecast for your region

#Java #CarbonAware #DevTools #Sustainability #JobRunr
July 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🌿 JobRunr just got featured in JVM Weekly!

Thanks to @askowronski.bsky.social for the deep dive on Carbon Aware Jobs.

A tiny change to your cron syntax, a big leap for sustainable software 💚

Read the full post →
www.jvm-weekly.com/p/jobrunr-br...
JobRunr brings Carbon Aware Scheduling to JVM Saving the planet one job at a time - JVM Weekly vol. 138
This time, we’re highlighting four important projects that have been released recently. Trust me, each of them have something section-worthy!
www.jvm-weekly.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🌍 Running Java jobs when energy is cleanest?

With JobRunr’s Carbon Aware Jobs, you can schedule recurring tasks based on real-time CO2 forecasts.

Just add your region code (like "BE") — and let JobRunr pick the greenest time to run your job.

Smarter scheduling, zero extra infra.

#Java
July 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Thanks @infoq.com for featuring JobRunr in the Java news roundup! 🙌

With v8, we’re making background job scheduling smarter and greener, from Carbon Aware Jobs to multi-cluster dashboards.

Read the full roundup:
www.infoq.com/news/2025/07...

#java #infoq #greensoftware
Java News Roundup: JobRunr 8, Gradle, Grails, Micronaut, JHipster, Tomcat CVE
This week's Java roundup for July 7th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of JobRunr 8.0; the second release candidate of Gradle 9.0; the fifth milestone release of Grails 7.0; point…
www.infoq.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🚀 We’re live on Reddit!
We’re hosting an AMA about JobRunr v8, carbon-aware scheduling, and scaling background jobs in Java.
Come ask us anything 👉 /r/IAmA
#JobRunr #Java #AMA #Reddit
July 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🚀 JobRunr v8 is live. It’s greener and faster. 🌿

Carbon Aware Jobs run when the grid is cleaner.

Multi-Cluster Dashboard, SmartQueue, K8s Autoscaling — all built to scale smarter and waste less.

Helping devs run jobs better with less hassle.

Read more: www.jobrunr.io/en/blog/v8-r...

#Java
July 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
💡 JobRunr Tip!

When scheduling a background job:
❌ Don’t pass full entities
✅ Pass just the ID (UUID)

Why?
• Smaller job payloads
• Less serialization overhead
• Hibernate loads it correctly in context
• Fewer bugs, more speed 🚀

#Java #CodeTips #OSS
July 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
🌍 Coming in JobRunr v8: carbon-aware job scheduling

Got a job that isn’t time-critical? JobRunr will pick the greenest time overnight to run it, minimizing carbon emissions.

Perfect for things like LLM training & RAG updates that don’t need to run right now.

#Java #LLM #OSS
June 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM