How we scaled async workload processing at GitLab.com using Sidekiq | GitLab

Sidekiq was a great tool for async processing until it couldn't keep up. Here's how we made it scale........GitLab is a Ruby-on-Rails application that processes a lot of data. Much of this processing can be done asynchronously, and one of the solutions we use to accomplish this is Sidekiq which is a background-processing framework for Ruby. It handles jobs that are better processed asynchronously outside the web request/response cycle.....