Backerkit VS Sidekiq

I pledged Frosthaven on kickstarter.com and got a account just on backerkit.com with my locked order ;). Source: over 1 year ago

Sidekiq https://sidekiq.org/: This one started as an open source project, once it got enough traction, the developer made a premium version of it, and makes money by selling licenses to businesses. Source: 5 months ago

> I'm not sure feature withholding has traditionally worked out well in the developer space. I think it's worked out well for Sidekiq (https://sidekiq.org). I really like their model of layering valuable features between the OSS / Pro / Enterprise licenses. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

The code above isn't idempotent. If you run it twice, it will create two copies, which is probably not what you intended. Why is this important? Because most backend job processors like Sidekiq don't make any guarantees that your jobs will run exactly once. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

Relevant Patio11 comment from 2016: > We don't donate to OSS software which we use, because we're legally not allowed to. > I routinely send key projects, particularly smaller projects, a request to quote me a commercial license of their project, with the explanation that I would accept a quote of $1,000 and that the commercial license can be their existing OSS license plus an invoice. My books suggest we've spent... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

So how do we trigger such a long-running process from a Rails request? The first option that comes to mind is a background job run by some of the queuing back-ends such as Sidekiq, Resque or DelayedJob, possibly governed by ActiveJob. While this would surely work, the problem with all these solutions is that they usually have a limited number of workers available on the server and we didn’t want to potentially... - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago