Sidekiq Tutorial & Overview: Is Sidekiq For Ruby Still Worth Working With After 10 Years?
Sherlock Holmes needs Dr. Watson. Ruby programming needs Sidekiq. Or Delayed_job, or Resque?
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Daniel Errante
software engineer
I would agree Sidekiq is the best option for rails apps right now but I wish rails would come up with something that could compete with elixir as far as background processing goes. There’s a lot of overhead in Sidekiq when trying to parallelize background jobs in my experience. Like, parsing a 5GB CSV file as fast as possible is still difficult with ruby. How would you go about tackling a problem like that?