I also liked Huey because of it's simplicity, and tried using it in a commercial project, but it couldn't execute periodic tasks in less than a minute intervals which puzzled me a bit. I had need to execute task every 10 seconds to reindex database changes to ElasticSearch.
After opening GitHub issue about it and asking if there were plans to implement sub-minute intervals, library's author (coleifer on github) had dismissive/arrogant attitude, and his reply was something along the lines of "too bad you cannot fork it and do it by yourself" and deleted my thread.
This threw me off from using this library, and I went back to Celery.
* how did you settle on 10 seconds? Keeping two databases in sync is a complex process. I'd suggest that the difference between running 1x/min or 6x/min is negligible -- and if it's not then probably you need something more sophisticated than a simple cronjob.
* I am providing free software. You are not contracting with me to provide developer support, so in my book I'm under no obligation to be courteous and polite all the time. I try to be most of the time, but nobody is perfect. Luckily the source is available if you don't want to talk to me. That was my point and I'm surprised that is so triggering to some people.
Thanks for giving me advice on database syncing, but I think that you kinda missed the point.
It doesn't matter how I chose 10 seconds as a periodic task interval, problem was that to a simple question about feature support I got dismissive/borderline rude answer which made me lose confidence in Huey as a project and it's long-term maintainability. And it's not like I asked for something exotic, but a support for subminute periodic tasks which almost every other task queue has.
Do you have a preference? I was asked recently about setting up Redis for use as a job processing queue, I thought RQ might be a good fit. Huey looks good too, but I haven't used it yet.
As always I'm happy to see one of my projects getting repped. Huey was something I started out of frustration with celery. It's more of a celery replacement than an rq replacement, though it covers both. If you haven't heard of it -- it does tasks, cron (periodic tasks), delayed tasks, result-storage, etc., and supports multiple worker models (process/thread/greenlet).
