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Discover how Gusto scales Sidekiq to process over 100 million background jobs daily in this conference talk from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025. Learn the surprising and jaw-dropping techniques used to support 600+ engineers and millions of users across a complex Rails ecosystem. Explore real-world patterns for queue SLAs, autoscaling strategies, Redis optimization, job repair mechanisms, and how to package Sidekiq infrastructure into reusable gems across multiple applications. Gain insights into the gotchas, creative hacks, and hard-learned lessons from pushing asynchronous workloads far beyond typical comfort zones, including practical advice on retry settings and scaling considerations that will help you rethink your own background job architecture.
