Sidekiq

Sidekiq
DeveloperMike Perham
Initial releaseFebruary 5, 2012; 14 years ago (2012-02-05)[1]
Stable release
8.1.6[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 27 May 2026; 10 days ago (27 May 2026)
Written inRuby
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeWorking queue
LicenseLGPLv3
Websitesidekiq.org Edit this at Wikidata
Repository

Sidekiq is an open source background job framework written in Ruby.[3]

Architecture

Sidekiq uses Redis for its persistent data store. Each job is stored as a map of key/value pairs, serialized using JSON. Developers can use any programming language to create jobs by constructing the necessary JSON and pushing it into the queue in Redis. A Sidekiq process reads jobs from that Redis queue, using the First In First Out (FIFO) model, and executes the corresponding Ruby code. Job processing is asynchronous, allowing a web-serving thread to continue serving new requests rather than be blocked processing slower tasks.

Sidekiq can be used standalone, or integrated with a Ruby on Rails web application. Sidekiq is multithreaded so multiple jobs can execute concurrently within one process. A large scale application may have dozens or hundreds of Sidekiq processes executing thousands of jobs per second.

Sidekiq comes with a graphical web interface for inspecting and managing job data.

Business model

Sidekiq uses an Open Core business model to provide sustainability for the open source project.[4] The company behind Sidekiq, Contributed Systems, sells closed-source commercial versions, Sidekiq Pro and Sidekiq Enterprise, which contain additional features not included in the open source version.

Reception and use

Sidekiq is described as “well-known queue processing software”.[5]

It's used by Ruby applications like Mastodon, Diaspora,[6] GitLab and Discourse, that need to run tasks in the background, without making web requests wait. Sidekiq is also used to submit threads to the PHASTER phage search tool.[7]

References

  1. ^ v0.5.0
  2. ^ "Release 8.1.6". 27 May 2026. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  3. ^ https://sidekiq.org/
  4. ^ https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-04-14-mike-perham
  5. ^ Cukier, Daniel (2013). DevOps patterns to scale web applications using cloud services. SPLASH '13. doi:10.1145/2508075.2508432.
  6. ^ Diaspora Project (19 May 2013). "diaspora* 0.1.0.0". GitHub. 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. PMC 4987931. PMID 27141966.

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