# Background job processing in Elixir

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/background-job-processing-in-elixir/2068>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** phoenix, backend\
**Created:** [October 21, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/background-job-processing-in-elixir/2068 "2016-10-21T20:57:37Z")\
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I think you came around to the answer at the end there. IMHO it takes pretty specific requirements to make me even consider going outside beam for concurrent processing.

That said I’ve heard of verk and IIRC it also supports sidekiq format. That situation is really only useful if you have a ruby app creating background jobs to be processed in elixir.

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