Sidekiq
Simple, efficient background jobs for Ruby
Sidekiq is a high-performance background job processing framework for Ruby applications, capable of handling billions of jobs per day across thousands of processes. It offers an open-source core along with commercial tiers—Sidekiq Pro and Sidekiq Enterprise—that add advanced features like batches, callbacks, queue pausing, and job expiration. Developers integrate it via Ruby gems and configure it similarly to standard Sidekiq.
Sidekiq uses Redis as a job store and Ruby threads for concurrent processing, allowing workers to pick up and execute queued jobs asynchronously at high throughput.
Ruby application developers and engineering teams
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
Founders
- Mike Perhamgithub
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