# Sidekiq

14 Hacker News commenters recommended Sidekiq and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Widely recommended Ruby background job processor, praised for scaling, reliability and a sustainable paid model for its maintainers.

## Why people recommend it

- Sustainable model that supports maintainers (4 comments): "tools like Sidekiq, Karafka, JobRunr are taking care of their maintainers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558965)) "I'm glad to see the folks behind Sidekiq sticking to their principals." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46146643)) "Which we have happily paid for, for years." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805766))
- Handles many jobs and scales (3 comments): "my other customer using Rails and Sidekiq has no problems and they run many more jobs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46085604)) "we got a huge performance boost moving from Postgres + Que to Redis + Sidekiq" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802855)) "It's much easier to "scale" ruby using forking with sidekiq or multi process" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629714))
- Proven, well-documented, battle-tested (2 comments): "well-trodden and proven out by projects like Sidekiq" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621308)) "they're battle-tested and well-documented" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367103))
- Replaces custom job queues (2 comments): "building custom in-house rate limiters and job queues when Sidekiq or similar solutions would cover the next two years" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849739)) "Sidekiq handles a lot of this for you and it's honestly an amazing tool." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068934))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Oban](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oban.md): 39 recommend
- [Celery](https://hackerapproved.com/p/celery.md): 33 recommend
- [Solid Queue](https://hackerapproved.com/p/solidqueue.md): 22 recommend
- [Django background tasks](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django-background-tasks.md): 9 recommend
- [BullMQ](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bullmq.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Sidekiq", https://hackerapproved.com/p/sidekiq/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).