Sidekiq offers "simple, efficient background processing for Ruby." It's what we use when we need to easily perform parallel work or asynchronous jobs behind the scenes. Learn everything from the basics up through features offered in the Pro and Enterprise versions.
Each lesson focuses on a single aspect of building the project, like modeling the data, building a GraphQL server in Elixir, or building a mobile client for it in Flutter.
A basic introduction and overview of the Sidekiq background processing system.
Installing Sidekiq and writing and executing your first job.
Considerations for data types used in arguments in your workers.
A discussion of Sidekiq's retry process, exception monitoring, and idempotence.
Interacting with your Sidekiq worker processes via UNIX signals.
Deploying a Rails app to Heroku that uses Sidekiq for background processing.
Diving into Sidekiq's Ruby API.
Exploring what can go wrong with Sidekiq when workers die unceremoniously and how Sidekiq Pro resolves the issue. Also, examining the ability to pause queues.
Creating batches of jobs that can be monitored as a group, and having callbacks run when the batch is complete.
Handling jobs that have a limited useful time window in the event of busy queues, and filtering retries in the Web UI.
Sidekiq Pro's speedy API extensions, deleting jobs by `jid` and class, finding jobs by jid, and batch status.
Scheduling jobs to run periodically; in other words, "cron for Sidekiq workers".
Using Sidekiq Enterprise to save you from duplicate jobs.
Using Sidekiq's Rate Limiters to get around pesky API SLAs.
Encrypting secrets at rest, and managing multiple sidekiqs with a single binary
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