One strict JSON message envelope that Laravel, Symfony, Go, Python, Java, .NET and Node.js all speak — over the broker you already run.
Frameworks like Laravel serialize queued jobs with PHP's serialize() — a PHP-only
object graph. The moment a Go, Python or Java service needs to consume that job, it
can't read it. The usual escapes — adopt Kafka/gRPC, or hand-roll bridge services —
are heavy and invasive.
Don't change your broker. Change only the serialization.
BabelQueue replaces serialize() with a frozen, language-neutral JSON envelope
and routes by a URN instead of a class name — so a job produced in one language
is consumed natively in another, with a built-in trace_id for end-to-end tracing.
No sidecar, no proxy, no broker plugin.
{
"job": "urn:babel:orders:created",
"trace_id": "7b3f9c2a-e41d-4f88-9b2a-1c0d5e6f7a8b",
"data": { "order_id": 1042, "amount": 99.90 },
"meta": { "id": "…", "queue": "orders", "lang": "php", "schema_version": 1, "created_at": 1749132727000 },
"attempts": 0
}use BabelQueue\Facades\BabelQueue;
BabelQueue::publish('urn:babel:orders:created', ['order_id' => 1042]);# a Python service consumes the very same message — natively
@bq.handler("urn:babel:orders:created")
def on_order_created(data, meta):
... # AI/ML, data processing, anything- 🧩 Agnostic serialization — a strict JSON envelope, no
serialize()lock-in. - 🔖 URN routing — identity (
urn:babel:<context>:<event>) decoupled from class names. - 🔭 Built-in
trace_id— follow one message across every service and language. - 🔌 Broker-agnostic — Redis & RabbitMQ, swap by a config line.
- 🪶 Drop-in & lightweight — reuse your framework's worker; zero heavy dependencies.
Each language ships a framework-agnostic core plus thin framework adapters, so the wire format stays identical everywhere.
| Language | Core | Framework adapter(s) | Registry | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHP | babelqueue/php-sdk |
babelqueue/laravel, babelqueue/symfony |
Packagist | ✅ 1.0.0 |
| Python | babelqueue |
[celery], [django] extras |
PyPI | ✅ 1.0.0 |
| Go | babelqueue-go |
…/redis, …/amqp modules |
Go modules | ✅ 1.0.0 |
| Node.js | @babelqueue/core |
@babelqueue/bullmq, @babelqueue/nestjs |
npm | ✅ 1.0.0 |
| Java | com.babelqueue:babelqueue-core |
…:babelqueue-spring |
Maven Central | ✅ 1.0.0 |
| .NET | BabelQueue.Core |
BabelQueue.MassTransit |
NuGet | ✅ 1.0.0 |
Brokers: Redis · RabbitMQ
- 🌐 Website & docs: babelqueue.com
- 🤝 Contributing: see CONTRIBUTING
- 🔒 Security: see SECURITY
- ❤️ Sponsor: github.com/sponsors/muhammetsafak
- 💬 Open an issue or discussion on the relevant repository.
Status: BabelQueue is 1.0 (GA) — every SDK is published at
v1.0.0with a SemVer-stable public API (breaking changes require a MAJOR, per the deprecation policy). The wire contract is frozen atschema_version: 1.
Open source under the MIT License © Muhammet Şafak.
