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You can do a fair amount of this with Postgres using locks out of the box. It’s not super intuitive but I’ve been using just Postgres and locks in production for many years for large task distribution across independent nodes.

>>beveks+(OP)
I wrote about one simple implementation:

https://renegadeotter.com/2023/11/30/job-queues-with-postrgr...

>>renega+ps
Looks very similar to my solution. :-)