Background Processing with Rails, Redis and Sidekiq

In any non-trivial web application you will get to a point where certain requests take so long to answer that your application will break if you try to respond with a synchronous HTTP response.

In this case you need to offload the work into a background process and start to build out a slightly more distributed workflow for your backend architecture.

This screencast is a quick overview of how to build background processes in Rails apps using Redis and Sidekiq, and then deploy the proper infrastructure onto Heroku.

This is a pattern that is necessary to understand to do any kind of serious web development.

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[flyinggeese]

I love how you explain exactly what the deal is regarding synchronous requests, and explain exactly what Sidekiq would be used for. A big problem I have is running into tools and libraries that sound interesting, but I can't exactly figure out what they do, or why they'd help me because of all the jargon that everyone assumes you already know.

[Dany]

The production quality is on point, please continue making these mate.

[hustshawn]

Really enjoy the way u talk the tech points, brief and clear!

[HekaFOF]

Best intro for coding tutorial I have seen! Keep going! More React stuff also as a request :)

[SaiMako]

Haven't watched the rest yet (only the intro so far) and that was amazing. Thanks!

[bethanyjohnson]

Thank you very much for this. I really appreciated using this resource and it taught me just what I needed. Have a nice day.

[GerryStuff]

Great tutorial! I think that the fact that you show your face makes you connect more with viewers, and you're the first web developer with a youtube channel that i've seen doing it. :) Keep it up!

[NadZul-lg]

Thank you!! I've been having a problem and the worst part is knowing it's running but doesn't know what's the logic error but thanks to the UI, I finally know why it's not doing what I want it to do.

[vdynmx]

Dude I love watching this. I'm a beginner and its refreshing how you explain this. keep it up!

[Deepakkumar]

Awesome explanation, thanks a lot for showing end to end flow.

[ruby-on-rails]

Wow, bro! Awesome explanation... Loved it!

[nadaashraf]

Thank you, this was so informative, probably the best sidekiq tutorial I came across :D

[DH-didt]

This was great, thank you. Keep up the good work!

[ksjoshi]

Thanks a ton, mate, for simplifying this concept for us. Great job.

[cirobessa]

Excellent video! Congratulations, it's clarified me a lot.

Thank you

[jacqueskousteau]

Great work 💪, nicely encapsulated tutorials on key rails topics. Thank you and please keep the content coming 🙏.

[RomeroMeireles]

Awesome introduction and coding tutorial! Helped me a lot!

[m_losch]

Excellent tutorial, keep up the good work!

[toanlee]

You did a great video. Exactly what i'm looking for. Thanks a lot.

[nachocapuccio]

Great video man, keep going! greetings from Argentina