Distributed Systems with Rails

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Sidekiq

ActiveJob is a Rails library that saves metadata to the backplane and runs operations in the background. Sidekiq is another popular library that serves the same purpose. Sidekiq implements the ActiveJob interface and includes advanced features not available in ActiveJob.

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Redis

The critical architectural component in the Rails toolbelt for managing background jobs is the backplane or data-bus which allows us to store metadata about expensive operations that should move off the critical path and be processed in the background. Redis is generally used as this backplane for serious Rails applications. It's a multipurpose in-memory data store that serves several functions: a cache, message broker, and database.

#Key-Value Database #NoSQL Databases #Databases 184 social mentions