Sidekiq, Delayed_job, or Resque?
Sidekiq is a free and open-source Ruby job scheduler that was created by Mike Perham. When developing a Ruby on Rails application, you might find yourself overwhelmed with myriads of tasks that must be executed at the same time. For example:
- Sending emails,
- Charging credit cards,
- Interacting with external APIs…
Sidekiq allows you to scale your application by performing work in the background. It came out 10 years ago, in 2012!
Mastering Sidekiq is not something you’ll need a triple digits IQ for. Nevertheless, stable and reliable software is a must for processing thousands of workers. This tool uses exclusively Redis as its database, which might not suit all. Memory leaks are also a thing to be aware of…
In our latest article, we decided to compare Sidekiq to its alternatives — Delayed_job and Resque — to see if this omniscient tool still stands the test of time.