About Zizq
Zizq is developed in Melbourne, Australia.
Zizq is the brainchild of Chris Corbyn, a software engineer with over two decades of experience building and operating systems at scale across a range of industries — including education, large-scale marketplaces, real estate, and banking.
Originally from the UK, Chris began his software development career there before moving to Australia in 2007. Since then, he has continued building software across a wide range of technologies — not just as a career, but as a long-standing passion.
Why Zizq exists
Zizq was born out of experience.
After years of working with different background job systems, some common themes tended to emerge: they were either overly complex to use correctly, were tied to one particular language or framework, or came with subtle flaws and caveats that eventually showed up at scale.
Zizq is an attempt to do things differently.
The goal is simple: make it work anywhere, make it easy to use out of the box, focus on performance, and ensure what it promises works correctly.
In short, something that just makes sense and behaves the way you expect.
Philosophy
Zizq is built with a strong focus on developer experience.
That means:
- One queue system, any stack
- Clear, predictable behaviour
- Sensible defaults
- Performance that scales with your system
It’s also developed in the open, with the source available on GitHub.
Looking ahead
It’s still early, but Zizq is built on a lot of real-world experience.
The aim is to keep improving the system over time — making it simpler, faster, more complete with useful features, and more robust with each iteration.
If you’re finding it useful, that’s the goal.