atqo

Async task queue orchestrator with resource-aware scheduling.

Each actor class declares what it consumes (requirements); the scheduler holds the pool (resources) and decides how many actors of each class to run. Optional per-task rate limits gate dispatch against time-windowed budgets.

Install

uv add atqo

Usage

from atqo import ActorBase, Scheduler, SchedulerTask, SingleCPUActor

class Scraper(SingleCPUActor):
    def consume(self, url):
        return fetch(url)

class HeavyActor(ActorBase):
    requirements = {"cpu": 2, "mem": 4}
    def consume(self, arg):
        return process(arg)

scheduler = Scheduler(
    actors=[Scraper, HeavyActor],
    resources={"cpu": 8, "mem": 16},
)

scheduler.refill_task_queue(
    [SchedulerTask(u, actor=Scraper) for u in urls]
    + [SchedulerTask(j, actor=HeavyActor) for j in jobs]
)
results = scheduler.join()

Rate limits

Per-task budgets recover over time (token bucket), independent of the static resource pool:

from atqo import RateLimit

scheduler = Scheduler(
    actors=[Scraper],
    resources={"cpu": 4},
    rate_limits={"site_a": RateLimit(10, per_seconds=60)},
)
SchedulerTask(url, actor=Scraper, rate_costs={"site_a": 1})

A task whose rate_costs exceeds a bucket's capacity raises ImpossibleRateCost at ingress — it could never run.

Simple parallel API

from atqo import parallel_map, parallel_consume

results = parallel_map(expensive_fn, items, workers=4)
parallel_consume(MyActor, items, workers=4)

Patterns

Stateful actors (logged-in browser, warm cache, etc.)

Register a separate actor class. Its __init__ performs the setup; the scheduler routes tasks needing that state via actor=.

class Browser(ActorBase):
    requirements = {"browser_slot": 1}
    def __init__(self): 
        self.driver = open_browser()
    def consume(self, url): 
        return self.driver.fetch(url)

class LoggedInBrowser(Browser):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.driver.login(USER, PW)

scheduler = Scheduler(
    actors=[Browser, LoggedInBrowser],
    resources={"browser_slot": 4},
)
SchedulerTask(url, actor=LoggedInBrowser)

Hang protection

Every blocking wait in the scheduler is bounded. Optional knobs on Scheduler(...):

• task_timeout: per-task wall-clock cap. Exceeded attempts fail like any exception (count against allowed_fail_count).
• stall_timeout: if no progress for this long, raise SchedulerStalled.
• poison_timeout: how long graceful actor drain waits before force-cancel (default 5s).

cleanup() and join() always terminate; they cancel listeners and stop the event loop unconditionally.