Sidekiq
Hacker ApprovedRanked 4 of 8 job queue libraries by recommenders
Widely recommended Ruby background job processor, praised for scaling, reliability and a sustainable paid model for its maintainers.
Widely recommended Ruby background job processor, praised for scaling, reliability and a sustainable paid model for its maintainers.
17 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 14
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 82%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 14 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Sustainable model that supports maintainers
“tools like Sidekiq, Karafka, JobRunr are taking care of their maintainers”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software” “I'm glad to see the folks behind Sidekiq sticking to their principals.”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “The Gem Fellowship – grant partnership with gem.coop” “Which we have happily paid for, for years.”
Comment from 29 Jan 2026 in “Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python” - Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"”
Handles many jobs and scales
“my other customer using Rails and Sidekiq has no problems and they run many more jobs”
Comment from 29 Nov 2025 in “A first look at Django's new background tasks” “we got a huge performance boost moving from Postgres + Que to Redis + Sidekiq”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python” “It's much easier to "scale" ruby using forking with sidekiq or multi process”
Comment from 15 Jan 2026 in “I Love You, Redis, but I'm Leaving You for SolidQueue” Proven, well-documented, battle-tested
“well-trodden and proven out by projects like Sidekiq”
Comment from 21 Jun 2026 in “The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software” “they're battle-tested and well-documented”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “Returning to Rails in 2026” Replaces custom job queues
“building custom in-house rate limiters and job queues when Sidekiq or similar solutions would cover the next two years”
Comment from 21 Apr 2026 in “Laws of Software Engineering” “Sidekiq handles a lot of this for you and it's honestly an amazing tool.”
Comment from 27 Nov 2025 in “How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table”
Other job queue libraries people recommend
The four most recommended other job queue libraries, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oban | 39 | 8 | 83% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Celery | 33 | 38 | 46% | 8 | — | — |
| Solid Queue | 22 | 3 | 88% | 5 | — | Approved |
| SidekiqThis page | 14 | 3 | 82% | 7 | — | Approved |
| Django background tasks | 9 | 3 | 75% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
15 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“well-trodden and proven out by projects like Sidekiq”
“tools like Sidekiq, Karafka, JobRunr are taking care of their maintainers”
“building custom in-house rate limiters and job queues when Sidekiq or similar solutions would cover the next two years”
“they're battle-tested and well-documented”
“all RAM allocated to the process stays allocated, and generally unused.”
“Which we have happily paid for, for years.”
“we got a huge performance boost moving from Postgres + Que to Redis + Sidekiq”
“Sidekiq is pretty bare bones compared to what Oban supports”
“It's much easier to "scale" ruby using forking with sidekiq or multi process”
“Sidekiq for background jobs”
“Sidekiq was a constant point of utter pain”
“I'm glad to see the folks behind Sidekiq sticking to their principals.”
“he made a living out of selling a RubyGem”
“my other customer using Rails and Sidekiq has no problems and they run many more jobs”
“Sidekiq handles a lot of this for you and it's honestly an amazing tool.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.