Distributed Systems with Rails

• Sidekiq

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  Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby

  

ActiveJob is a Rails library that saves metadata to the backplane and runs operations in the background. Sidekiq is another popular library that serves the same purpose. Sidekiq implements the ActiveJob interface and includes advanced features not available in ActiveJob.

• Redis

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  Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

  

The critical architectural component in the Rails toolbelt for managing background jobs is the backplane or data-bus which allows us to store metadata about expensive operations that should move off the critical path and be processed in the background. Redis is generally used as this backplane for serious Rails applications. It's a multipurpose in-memory data store that serves several functions: a cache, message broker, and database.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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