Sidekiq
sidekiq.orgSimple, efficient background jobs for Ruby
Dev Toolsrubybackground-jobsjob-queueopen-sourceredisconcurrencyworkers
About
Sidekiq is a high-performance background job processing framework for Ruby applications, capable of handling billions of jobs per day across thousands of processes. It offers an open-source core along with commercial tiers—Sidekiq Pro and Sidekiq Enterprise—that add advanced features like batches, callbacks, queue pausing, and job expiration. Developers integrate it via Ruby gems and configure it similarly to standard Sidekiq.
Problem
Ruby applications need a fast, reliable way to process background jobs at scale without managing complex queue infrastructure.
For
Ruby application developers and engineering teams
How it works
Sidekiq uses Redis as a job store and Ruby threads for concurrent processing, allowing workers to pick up and execute queued jobs asynchronously at high throughput.
Business model
freemium
Status
launched
Founders
- Mike Perhamgithub