I'm happy to announce the winner of my Sidekiq Pro 1.0 license giveaway is Libin Pan, whose company already uses Sidekiq pretty heavily, having run billions of jobs through Sidekiq in the last year. Let's hear his story:
I work for Demandforce, a b2b marketing company, we help our client to identify the companies who visited their online properties.
We were using resque before, because of the nature of forking, the memory and compute power is a big cost for us. …
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I announced Sidekiq Pro seven months ago and since then I've released 15 versions with both minor bugfixes and major new features.
Today I decided to pull the trigger and call it 1.0! I've moved the Sidekiq Pro changelog to the sidekiq repo for better visibility for all Sidekiq users. Watsi , Litmus , Customer.io and Travis-CI are just a few of the companies that have upgraded to Pro.
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…processor (think Resque on steroids) that's free and open source, but creator Mike Perham is now offering a commercial variant with extra features and support.
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NOTE: Mike Perham from Carbon Five recently wrote a blog post about using threads in Ruby. With his permission, we're reposting it here.
Carbon Five has been building state-of-the-art web applications for startups and large institutions since early 2000. Since their inception, they have focused on quality and value as the critical components of project success.
I spoke recently at Rubyconf 2011 on some advanced topics in threading. What surprised me was …
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Change change change I wholeheartedly agree with Mike Perham, please add a changelog to your project :
To me, a changelog is a brief overview of the changes in a version that is digestible by the end user. The key factor is that a changelog is not machine-generated but written by a project developer for the project's users.
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…and Mike Perham that pushed toward this goal. Rack/Fiber-Pool by Mike is a piece of Rack middleware that runs each request in it's own Fiber, allowing the possibility of easy cooperative scheduling in Rack applications. While EM-Synchrony provides a set of Fiber-aware EventMachine clients for common things like HTTP requests, Memcached, MySQL and Mongo.
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