Oban

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Company

The makers describe themselves as Parker and Shannon Selbert, a small software shop developing, designing, and supporting Oban.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Concurrency

Pro adds cluster-wide concurrency limits, rate limiting, queue partitioning, and burst mode.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Dashboard

Oban Web shows jobs, queues, schedules, and workflows across a cluster in a real-time dashboard, with controls to pause queues, retry or cancel jobs, and trigger crons.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Data protection

Oban Pro supports encrypted job arguments at rest; its documentation says metadata, error messages, and stacktraces remain plaintext.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Integrations

The maker documents Elixir and Python packages, and says workflows coordinate directly through Postgres without a separate orchestration service.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

License limit

A standard Pro license covers one application, defined as a system sharing one production database, and permits unlimited staging or production nodes for that application.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Purpose

Oban is a background job framework for Elixir and Python, backed by a database.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Reliability

The open-source foundation provides durable background jobs, automatic retries, error handling, transaction safety, and at-least-once execution.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Security review

The enterprise page says Oban will answer security questionnaires and share the executive summary from its latest security audit.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Support

Pro includes email support, while Enterprise Support offers a private Slack or Teams channel, prioritized support, configuration review, and video issue-triage calls during US and UK business hours.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Trial

The pricing FAQ says Oban does not offer a free trial.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

Workflows

Oban Pro workflows checkpoint each step in Postgres and resume from the last completed step after a crash, restart, or deploy.oban.pro · read 7 Oct 2026

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