Wrapping Up
This concludes our whirlwind tour of Sidekiq! You should now have a solid foundation to write and manage background jobs, and your Rails app should still be relatively predictable and sustainable. As mentioned above, your Rails app running Sidekiq is a distributed system, so you will benefit greatly from reading more about managing distributed systems in production. The Wikipedia article for the Fallacies of Distributed Computing is a great place to get familiar with the problems and terminology.[30] The best teacher, however, is experience building, operating, and monitoring real-world software.
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