Sidekiq Alternatives

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• Conditional job execution with Sidekiq
  reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-04-07
• Gnarly Learnings from March
  dev.to | 2021-04-02

  Redis is sometimes only considered as the backing store for job queues - particularly in Ruby with Sidekiq. However, Redis is a general-purpose in-memory store, and can be used for many things. This article explores one such additional use for Redis.

• How can I schedule a job to be executed in the future ?
  reddit.com/r/ruby | 2021-03-30
• Does sidekiq have any endpoints that let you interact with the console programmatically?
  reddit.com/r/ruby | 2021-03-17
• Running Background Jobs in Ruby on Rails Containers
  dev.to | 2021-03-17

  Sidekiq is a framework that describes itself as “Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby.” It is nicely integrated with Rails and can run your background jobs either on-demand or on a scheduled basis. Setting it up and using it is indeed fairly simple. However, one constraint to note is that it does use Redis to persist and coordinate job execution.

• Getting Sidekiq to play nicely with auto-scaling
  reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-03-15

  Has anyone had trouble with Sidekiq jobs disappearing when servers shutdown? We're on Heroku and when we tried to use Rails Autoscale, we would frequently see jobs just evaporate. The logs for a job would stop mid-processing. Sidekiq would not push the job back onto the queue and retry it. We upgraded to Enterprise and tried out SuperFetch, but then found that instead jobs were frequently getting duplicated. The Sidekiq docs mention support for rolling restarts, but it doesn't appear that works on Heroku. It's pretty important for us that jobs run once and only once, but I'm not sure how to accomplish that without using a database backed queuing system for locking.

  reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-03-15

  https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Best-Practices read that for some guidelines from the sidekiq docs. There’s a variety of techniques that can be used to break apart jobs so the idempotent parts are separate from the jobs that can’t be retried.

• What’s the difference between frontend and backend?
  dev.to | 2021-03-12

  But it is not all about presenting information to the user who is browsing your website. Sending email notifications is something that is managed by a queuing system that runs asynchronously to improve concurrency. There are several solutions to this matter. In Ruby’s world a popular system is Sidekiq , which uses Redis to get quick access to what it needs to process.

• Best add-ons for Ruby on Rails project hosted on Heroku
  dev.to | 2021-03-08

  redis_connection = Redis.new( # use REDISCLOUD_URL when app is running on Heroku, # or fallback to local Redis (useful for development) url: ENV.fetch('REDISCLOUD_URL', 'redis://localhost:6379/0'), # tune network timeouts to be a little more lenient when you are seeing occasional timeout # errors for Heroku Redis Cloud addon # https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Using-Redis#life-in-the-cloud timeout: 5 ) redis_connection.setex('my-key-name', 1.hour, 'this value will expire in 1 hour')

• My Ruby on Rails stack for side projects in 2021
  dev.to | 2021-03-01

  Sidekiq. I've been using that for many years now and it has been rock solid both for side projects and work projects. I also recommend using ActiveJob with Sidekiq just to make things a bit easier and rails-like. It will make things a bit slower but that shouldn't matter for side projects.

• How I Used the Opensource Codebase of Dev Community to Build My Own Website
  dev.to | 2021-02-26

  Sidekiq and Active Job for background workers

• ActiveJob: Async and Inline adapters don't execute my code?
  reddit.com/r/rails | 2021-01-06

  I know this doesn’t answer your question directly but I just wanted to point out that if you’re using Sidekiq, it’s at a minimum double as fast to run it directly without AJ, and potentially up to 20x faster. https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Active-Job#performance

• Modern Rails flash messages (part 2): The undo action for deleted items
  dev.to | 2020-09-08

  As to making it as DRY as possible, we need to pass class and id of the model as parameters to our worker. You could be tempted to pass the object as for ActiveJob, but Sidekiq does not support it. See best practices for Sidekiq.

  dev.to | 2020-09-08

  I will use Sidekiq for background jobs.