9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Sidekiq first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“my other customer using Rails and Sidekiq has no problems and they run many more jobs.”
endorse · production · pmontra · 2025-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“With the paid features to keep it from getting dropped things still can be painful... ultimately our operations have been much simpler as we've moved off of sidekiq.”
regret · production · phamilton · 2023-09-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a tremendous workload on Sidekiq (millions of events a week) in production with no issues.”
endorse · production · bdcravens · 2018-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Main rails containers, nginx, sidekiq and almost everything in ECS.”
neutral · production · efxhoy · 2022-08-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The Rails application is a normal API with Sidekiq (aka Redis) workers, which handle asynchronous tasks.”
neutral · production · rememberlenny · 2021-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“that's without considering Sidekiq (concurrency 25).”
neutral · production · pqdbr · 2021-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“urgent-other sidekiq shard was migrated, cost went from $290/month when running in VMs to $700/month in Kubernetes”
neutral · production · marinj · 2020-09-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There was resque and then there was sidekiq.”
neutral · production · andmarios · 2013-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced resque with sidekick.”
neutral · production · sytse · 2013-03-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?