Sidekiq

Sidekiq
Original author(s) Mike Perham
Initial release February 5, 2012 (2012-02-05)[1]
Stable release
5.1.3 / April 2, 2018 (2018-04-02)
Repository
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Written in Ruby
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English
Type Working queue
License LGPLv3[2]
Website sidekiq.org

Sidekiq is an open source working job scheduler written in Ruby.[3]

Architecture

Sidekiq uses Redis as in-memory data structure store and is written in Ruby.[4] It supports Java clients too.[4] It can be used with Resque, another Redis based job scheduler, or more commonly as a standalone product.

Sidekiq reads jobs from a Redis queue, using First In First Out (FIFO) model, process jobs. Job processing is asynchronous and allows a web thread to only serve request, rather than process heavy tasks. [5]

Reception and use

Sidekiq is described as a “well-known queue processing software”.[4]

It's used by Ruby applications needing to run tasks in background, and not in the web requests handling time, like Mastodon, Diaspora[6], GitLab and Discourse. Sidekiq is also used to submit threads to the PHASTER phage search tool.[7]

References

  1. ↑ v0.5.0
  2. ↑ Sidekiq license
  3. ↑ Unruh, Ian; Bardas, Alexandru G.; Zhuang, Rui (November 2014). Compiling Abstract Specifications into Concrete Systems—Bringing Order to the Cloud. 28th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA14). ISBN 978-1-931971-17-1.
  4. 1 2 3 Cukier, Daniel (2013). DevOps patterns to scale web applications using cloud services. SPLASH '13. doi:10.1145/2508075.2508432.
  5. ↑ "Remote System Applications Access" (PDF). IJISET - International Journal of Innovative Science, Engineering & Technology. 2 (4). April 2012. ISSN 2348-7968.
  6. ↑ Diaspora Project (19 May 2013). "diaspora* 0.1.0.0". Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  7. ↑ Arndt, David; Grant, Jason R.; Marcu, Ana; Sajed, Tanvir; Pon, Allison; Liang, Yongjie; Wishart, David S. (8 July 2016). "PHASTER: a better, faster version of the PHAST phage search tool". Nucleic Acids Research. 44 (W1): W16–W21. doi:10.1093/nar/gkw387. ISSN 0305-1048. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
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