Ruby on Rails Background Jobs with Sidekiq

by David Bryant Copeland

Using Sidekiq for background jobs is a great way to scale and grow your app. This book will give you a solid, practical foundation for creating resilient, well-tested, self-healing code that uses background jobs. You’ll be able to simulate real-world failure modes and learn how to write idempotent code that can be safely run with Sidekiq.

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Published August 1, 2023

About the author

David Copeland is a programmer and author. He wrote "The Senior Software Engineer" and "Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby", and has over 16 years of professional development experience. He's managed high-performance, high-traffic systems at LivingSocial, helped build the engineering team at Opower, and worked consulting gigs both large and small. Currently, he's a lead engineer at fashion start-up Stitch Fix, building a platform that will change the retail shopping experience.

Reviews

[Pawan Dubey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very quick read: almost a primer on a Sidekiq with rails. It did teach me a couple of new features and also refreshed my memory on others.

Otherwise mostly applicable for people new to writing and managing background jobs, and does a fine job towards that audience.

[facundo espinosa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for devs starting with Sidekiq, but it contains some nice tips for people that have been using it for some time. It’s a short book, so it’s worth to read it.