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Sidekiq: Open source, business and the futureSan Francisco Ruby Conference 20252025-11-19
Sidekiq is an open core background-job system that scales — a largest customer runs 250,000 jobs/sec — and uses Redis and multithreading to run jobs…
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The Past, Present and Future of Background Job...RailsConf 20252025-07-08
Panelists compare four real backends: Redis-backed Sidekiq (commercial Pro/Enterprise, batches API took years to stabilize), Solid Queue on…
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Asynchronous Processing for Fun and ProfityRubyConf 20122012-11-01
Argues that background work must use tiny, stateless messages (store data in DB, pass IDs) and id-based lookups to avoid stale state, and that jobs must be…
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Scaling Ruby with Actors, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ThreadsRubyConf 20112011-09-29
Argues that Ruby can scale with threads by using actor libraries and lock-free primitives rather than raw mutexes, demonstrates APIs: Celluloid…
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Checking under the Hood: A guide to Rails EnginesLone Star Ruby Conference 20092009-08-27
Rails 2.3 engines let a gem supply full MVC pieces — app/controllers, app/views, app/models — so reusable features can install routes, controllers and view…
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How Not to Build a ServiceLone Star Ruby Conference 20082008-09-04
Manage 1.0 targets the wrong market (Enterprise) and costs years to rewind; refocus to Rails users, ditch enterprise-only features like custom proxy and…
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