I'm excited to announce that I am a co-author of The Rails 4 Way alongside Obie Fernandez himself. Read More A lot of Ruby developers are familiar with queues, such as DelayedJob and Resque. While these queues have been predominant the last couple of years, my tool of choice is Sidekiq, a Redis backed queue by Mike Perham. Sidekiq advertises that a single process can do the work of 20 Resque or De